Re: Partitioning a large drive.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:17:03PM -0600, ktb wrote:
> >
> > Would the following work?
> >
> > /boot (5 meg primary)
> > / (10240 meg logical)
> > /swap (64 meg primary)
> >
> > Just leaving the rest open until I get ready to install the other OSs.
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> What you have should work fine. With as much disk space as you have I
> would bump your swap space up a bit if you have 64 megs of ram. I like to
> partition a little more than that but unless this is a mission critical
> server there really isn't much reason to do so. You will come up with a
> partitioning scheme that you are comfortable as you go along. You can
> share /swap between other versions of debian and freebsd. You might
> want to check out -
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html
> kent
>
>
Well I did it a little differently, I added a /home of 500 meg. And all but
the /boot are logical partitions. It seems to be working so far, but it has
only been a few hours. One last hardware hurdle to over come yet though.
The BIOS really doesn't like the new drive. I have to over-ride the errors,
and boot via floppy. Now I remember reading one time that there is a way to
make the BIOS believe that it's a smaller drive, and once Linux takes over
the world is good again. Would anyone know where the how-tos on that is?
Well I was having a bit of trouble with the 64 meg, so had to drop back to
32. Miss matched chips was offered as a possible explanation. Don't know,
but it sure was acting goofy.
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