Re: Partitioning questions.
Hi !
I thank you all for the informations you gave me about
disk partitioning.
I now have a running box :) with Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1,
not Red Hat 5.0 :).
The bad news are that I can't run the Xserver :( I'll put
this question in an another thread.
Regards, Max
> From jens@unsolved.weh.rwth-aachen.de Thu Jun 18 22:30 MET 1998
> To: Max Lawson <mlawson@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr>
> Subject: Re: Partitioning questions.
> From: Jens Ritter <jens@weh.weh.rwth-aachen.de>
> Date: 18 Jun 1998 22:40:25 +0200
>
> Max Lawson <mlawson@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's is a great day. A friend of mine and I are going
> > to have our boxes.
> >
> > I'm in trouble: I need to have the boxes ready quickly.
> > i've ordered Hamm CDs, but haven't received them yet. All
> > I've available is RH5.0 CDs.
> >
> > i'm _going_ to install it _first_. The way I would like to
> > do this job is that I should be able to overwrite this
> > distribution, once I've received the Debian CDs. _Without_
> > destroying my data.
> >
> > How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition
> > mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have:
> >
> > '/' <- a root partition,
> > '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo).
> >
> > -1- To achieve what I want to do, I'll have to make a '/home'
> > partition. Correct ?
>
> Yes.
>
> > -2- my friend an I have a 3Go and 4Go HDs resp. How many
> > space should I give to the root partition (M$ mu$hroom will also
> > be present: ~400Mo) ? That's the bootable partition and therefore, it
> > will contains all the system file. True ?
>
> No. The dos partition will just contain that. During the install
> another partition is made bootable and you may choose on bootup which
> one to run.
>
> Root ( == "/" ) will contain, /root, some mount
> points ( /dos, /fd, /mnt, /home ), the configuration files ( /etc ) and /usr
> where most of the files will reside.
>
> This is my system (some free partitions are missing):
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 50749 12556 35573 26% /
> /dev/md0 991000 705500 234289 75% /usr
> /dev/hda6 495714 57999 412114 12% /var
> /dev/hdc3 792800 717912 33923 95% /home
> /dev/hdc4 2737799 2545005 51233 98% /home/ftp/pub2
> /dev/hda1 923040 240576 682464 26% /dos
>
> (Don´t get confused by the names for the partitions --- I run this
> system for about 6 month now. So the "used" figures give some idea what
> is needed for a medium/heavy development site :). /home/ftp/pub2 is a
> hamm debian mirror.
>
> >
> > -3- Once I've my Debian CDs, how to overwrite the RH files ?
>
> Best is, you partition your hard disk according to your needs right
> now and just do a fresh install of debian (without overwriting /home).
> (AFAIK the layout of files in /etc differs, so you will get files
> lying around, if you install debian above redhat.)
>
> HTH,
>
> Jens
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