Re: Help with LILO, and initial install, please
On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 02:15:42PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I am trying to install the unstable distribution set on a machine that
> ran Debian happily for years. The only change has been the addition of
> a larger disk (8Gig).
>
> It's been a long time since I installed debian, thanks to it's excelent
> upgrade abailty, but I need to install from scratch this time.
>
> I initally set up the disk with 3 partitions:
>
> / (500M)
> 75M swap
> /usr remainder
>
> However I ran inot problems with filling up the / partition while using
> dselect to install a large number of packages. So I went back and
> repartioned such that the first partion was 1023M. LILO did not like
> this :-(
>
> So I decided to repartiton it like this.
>
> /boot (100M)
> 75M swap
> / remainder
>
> I was able to get the install menu system to think that was OK, and
> install the boot blocks. Unfortunately. when I rebooted, I just goot a
> 3FA: for a prompt. Not good.
>
> How can I best partiton this drive, so that I have enough spce for the
> / partition?
>
> Is it likely t be /vat thats filling up?
>
yes,
convert:~# du -s /var
142752 /var
excuse, me but this is the third time whithin two days that someone asks,
how to partition a "large" disk. What about not only posting, but also
reading the archives?
Ingo
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