How to partition hard drive?

["George M. Butler" <butler@tcainternet.com>]

Hi all,

I know this is a real newbie question.  I am in the process of
installing Debian Potato r2 on a
brand new machine I just built.  It has a factory clean 30G IDE hard
drive and AMD K6-2/500.  I put the Debian CD in the CDRom and booted.
I have selected the US qwerty keyboard.  Now I am ready to partition the
hard drive.  I would like some suggestions as to how to best partition
the drive.  I want this to be a Debian only machine  and I would also
like to have one partition to do the Linux From Scratch project at a
later date.
I would like to hear suggestions you might have or experieces.  Thanks
for  your help.

George