Matt Stegman wrote:
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The only reason you'd want to separate out /home is a) if your root
partition becomes corrupted, you can still preserve your personal files
and b) if you need to upgrade, you don't lose everything when you format
the root partition.
Something I've been wondering
-installs and upgrades while making backup
strategy easier to figure out.
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios
For stuff I've downloaded and added myself I usually try to make sure it
goes into /usr/local which I have on a separate partition.
I'd like to do that too, but RPM's usually put stuff in /usr/bin,
/usr/lib, and so forth. Do you have to build from sources if you want
things in /usr/local/bin,
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote:
What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home ,
/anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can
understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023
cyls,
ok, I have one more question along this thread.
I have a 520 meg harddrive on my NEC laptop..
I am going to run Slackware 4 on it.. because I can do a Floppy install
with it.
Can you do a FTP install of Mandrake??
Anyway.. how do you think I should partition my harddrive for a basic X
I have a 520 meg harddrive on my NEC laptop..
I am going to run Slackware 4 on it.. because I can do a Floppy install
with it.
Can you do a FTP install of Mandrake??
Yes, you can. Get the bootnet.img file from /updates/6.0/images off your
local mirror
Anyway.. how do you think I
I usually setup my partitions like this for a workstation/smb
server install. I have two 4 GB HDDs.
swap - 128MB
/ - 300MB
/usr - 3GB (depending on the size of your HDD)
/home - 4GB the rest usually around
You might want to have more mount points if you are using
the server for web serving
What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home ,
/anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can
understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023
cyls, but what about / , /usr do you really need the separate diskspaces?
It
NoOne wrote:
What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home ,
/anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can
understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023
cyls, but what about / , /usr do you really need the
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote:
I *think* that Linux will ignore the BIOS once it starts up. However, you're
still dependant on BIOS until it boots. What I would suggest is making a
"/boot" partition about 500 megs in size
A 500 meg /boot partition. NO WAY.
Just how big do your kernels
Would the same parameters hold true for a server?
Vic
Brett Jones wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote:
I *think* that Linux will ignore the BIOS once it starts up. However, you're
still dependant on BIOS until it boots. What I would suggest is making a
"/boot" partition about 500 megs
ok, so I want to install Mandrake on this computer. As it stands now I am
having a very hard time getting support from NEC because the machine is so
old. They did come out with a bios that would autoconfig a drive and also
could do LBA mode. But I have had no luck flashing this machine with it.
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Would the same parameters hold true for a server?
Vic
I've got a server with 1 4.5 gig SCSI drive, and 1 8.4 gig IDE drive. This is
what it's tables looks like.
4.5
/boot 20 m
/ 850 m
/var400 m
/home
Thanks for the info, I've beating my head against a wall for a week now. I won't be
hosting websites, but it will be doing file/printer/email/internet routing. I'll
just adjust the files accordingly. Did you mount "/usr" , "usr/src",and
"/usr/local" within the "/" partition? How about a "/tmp"?
I have a question.
Does Linux use the BIOS to get harddrive specifications??
I own an older 486/75 NEC Versa Laptop that I would like to use as a Linux
machine.
I have only a maximum of 540meg HD right now.. so because I wanted to run
Linux I was thinking of Upgrading the HD.. to a GIG or
he rest of the drive space.
That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the
system recognizes...
John
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I have a question.
Does Linux use the BIOS to get harddrive specifications??
I own an older 486/75
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