On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:56:49PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > > I read at > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html : > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 4.1.1 The Directory Tree > > The following list describes some important directories. It should help > you to find out what your partitioning scheme should be. If this is too > confusing for you, just ignore it and reread it when you read the rest of > the installation manual. > > /: root represents the starting point of the directory hierarchy. It > contains the essential programs that the computer can boot. This includes > the kernel, system libraries, configuration files in /etc and various > other needed files. Typically 30-50 MB are needed but this may vary. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So I assigned something like 42 MB to "/", which was insufficient...I > ended up needing more than 75MB, not sure yet exactly how much because I > haven't finished the installation. potato or woody? with potato and a http base install the 15MB base.tgz is downloaded to /target/tmp so that must be its own partition if have a small root filesystem (even if you didn't run into this during install you would later). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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