I am about to install Mandrake and need some advice on the directory
structure I should us.
I have a 6 Gig drive which I will dedicate to Linux use.
I plan to keep any data that should be used by both W98 and Linux in a
separate 5 Gig Fat partition on another drive.
I would like to be able to
You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how
others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in
terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took
up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would
Marc -
Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I
install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use
and what size should they be?
Preston
At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote:
You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig
Marc -
Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I
install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use
and what size should they be?
Preston
At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote:
You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig
David A. Ferguson wrote:
The easyest thing is to have one swap partition and one partition mounted
at '/'. This has the advantage of not forcing you to guess how much space
to allocate to / v.s /usr.
David
Not very good idea. At least you should divide / and /home in separate
partitions,
I have to agree with other replies on the list.
I would basically for a simple setup do as follows:
/ - Root Partition
/home -Home Direcroties
/swap -Rule of thumb, your swap partition is twice the size of your ram, of
course it can be bigger.
--
Marc Hultquist
ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:42 am, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote:
Marc -
Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I
install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use
and what size should they be?
Preston
At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc
One of the reasons for switching to unix was the control over the os
that it allows. But I must admit the may files are organized are
completly chaotic. One install installs everything into one directory
another spreads the files out to every single directory on your drive.
How you can possibly
Paul Kraus wrote:
One of the reasons for switching to unix was the control over the os
that it allows. But I must admit the may files are organized are
completly chaotic. One install installs everything into one directory
another spreads the files out to every single directory on your drive.
Nicolas VERITE wrote:
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Anuerin G. Diaz wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:54:13 +1100
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me:
On 13 Feb 2002 03:29:51 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the reasons for switching to unix was the control over the os
that it allows. But I
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