Re: Partitioning--Advice?
Use the installer's disk partition tool. Use the c
(lowercase) key to make all partitions and you MUST name
the swap partition "swap". I recommend that you make a
100 Mb swap partition and make the other 900 Mb, or the
rest of the drive. Just use c and everything will be
fine. It takes care of the type if you name it in all
lowercase "swap". Have fun installing Debian, I just
switched to it from SuSE and it is great. You only have
a 1 Gb drive, so just a / is fine. Have a Nice Day.
Blake C.M. Setlow
> I'm going to be installing Debian on a 1GB internal SCSI drive, and I'd like
> some advice on partitioning. I have a version of drive setup that can make A/UX
> partitions, or I can boot into the setup from BootX and use the partitioner
> there. I know I need a swap partition (~64MB, right, since I have 64MB of RAM?)
> and at least one "linux native" partition, but I understand it's better to have
> separate partitions for some, if not all, of the root directories (/home, /var,
> /etc, etc.), so I'd like advice on how much space to give each partition. Also,
> using the partition tool from the rescue disk, do I need to use the "C" command
> or the "c" command to make the prtitions? If "C", what type do I specify? I
> tried "Linux_Swap", and the installer doesn't recognize it. I tried "Linux Swap"
> and got an error. BTW, I'm not going to be using this installation for anything
> fancy, like a big server or a firewall, it's just sort of for messing around and
> learning linux. Thanx!
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