stymied by Deb, went FreeBSD instead
I have a 14 gig drive I wanted to devote
entirely to Debian Linux or FreeBSD.
I made the Deb boot floppies, booted up,
and got stymied at the Partition hard disk
step in `cfdisk'.
It showed me the whole disk, which at the time
had FreeBSD 3.1 on it.
I figured I needed partitions for
root = 100 Mb
swap = 512 Mb
/usr = rest of disk
so.... I couldn't figure out how to size the
partition. Did I need to make a Linux Partition
first, then size that. And why does the Linux
Swap partition appear as a seperate entity in
cfdisk->type list?
Gave up. Went over to FreeBSD, made 2 floppies, followed
steps, defaults for everything including partitioning.
Started a network install, went to
bed, woke up and rebooted into FreeBSD 4.1.
with Debian I couldn't figure out how to go.
I copied a bunch of files onto a DOS partition on
a second drive in my machine, not the one I wanted
Linux installed on. Got confused.
Then decided to make a CD-image, but never finished.
Then while scanning the documentation,
found something that said you could do a network
install and you only needed 2 floppies. But then
I thought I remembered reading on the mail list
that its not supported.
plus in the install manual for Debian 2.2, it
says you probably will need 2-3 gigs for /var
so you can do an `apt' update in the future.
what's that all about??
After all this, I'm still interested in installing
Debian Linux. I guess I just need to experiment more.
hmmm.... I have partition magic 4.x, and it lets me
created a Linux extended partition - what's that?
Can I use that?
running out of midnight oil
- greg strockbine
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