is there a Debian specific published manual
in the sense that there is for Slackware and RedHat?
we are somewhat familar with how and where things are in slackware.
we are getting a new system and want to install a maintainable, (where
slackware really isn't), distribution. we attempted RH 3.0.3 and were
unable to to get any help whatsoever from either RedHat here in Durham
NC, (corporate office) or the redhat-list that is supposed to be
likje this list is for Debian. for a commercial "supported" OS we
found it less supported the M$ windoze/M$DOS OS/environment was.
from what we have been seeing the environment here is MUCH friendlier.
we need to find text based documentation that we can print on a dot
matrix printer. the new server will arrive without any OS on its
disk... (they wanted to sell us Win95 and a bunch of CD for Win95 ;),
but we told them we are planiong on running a REAL OS :)). if its on
the CD (in the BO distribution, just tell us where to look).
anyway, if there is a published book that would help, if not,
any documentation that is plain/text that we run thru lp/lpr
to pageinate and print would help. we used this slackware system
and the lsl.com "offical" Debian 1.3.1 2 CD set to produce
a rescue disk and drivers disk. from the look of the bo directory
its going to load the base system from the cd using the rescue disk
as in installation/starter system.
our main questions are things like partitions, for slackware
we have a lot of partitions and too much still in / .
suggestions for partitioning would be helpfull...
I'd like to seperate
/
/usr
/usr/src installed system software sources
/usr/local /etc /bin /lib whatever
/usr/local/src installed locally patched sources
of course if things are stable
there probably wont be much in /usr/local
right?
/var
/var/spool for UUCP spool, inn control files
users mail
(if its possible the users mail spool
should go in the users /home our
users use mainly pine and elm (MUAs)
and we use sendmail (MTA))
SMTPD staging
/tmp
/news spool space for articles
/home[1-n] user home directories
/majordomo all things relating
as wells as the archives/digests etc.
currently we have:
/dev/hdb1 123919 89215 28305 76% /
/dev/hdb2 123935 60204 57331 51% /home1
/dev/hdb3 123935 13 117522 0% /home6
/dev/hdb4 139553 75994 56352 57% /usr/src
/dev/hda1 70270 41272 25370 62% /home16
/dev/hda2 139553 65859 66487 50% /hda2
/dev/hda3 139553 75576 56770 57% /majordomo
/dev/hda5 139552 121302 11043 92% /home3
/dev/hda6 139552 110258 22087 83% /hda6
/dev/hda7 139552 107448 24897 81% /home4
/dev/hda8 39038 2543 34480 7% /tmp
/dev/sda5 29742 5700 23408 20% /var/spool/uucp
/dev/sda6 150706 78965 63959 55% /home2
/dev/sda7 150706 49685 93239 35% /home5
/dev/sda8 150706 60166 82758 42% /usr/local
/dev/sda9 148715 107515 33521 76% /usr/local/src
/dev/sdb1 965708 203865 761843 21% /news
and a 40meg paritition for paging.
I think like maybe 120meg swap partition, (I understand
it handles up to 127meg). we will have 32meg ram initially.
/hda2 is really empty (we used it to stage the non-free/source
for bo)
/hda6 is mail spool and INN /usr/lib/news
the original partitions were setup to fit on a ez135 (syqyuest)
removable.
thnaks
Fuzzy
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