Re: How to partition hard drive?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001, George M. Butler wrote:
> 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,
Hi. You'd probably get the following link suggested to you by its
author (Karsten) pretty soon, but just in case you're in a rush to
read up, a very well-written guide to partitioning Debian is the
following:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Take care,
Daniel
>
> George
>
>
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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University
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