Re: How to partition hard drive?
On 13 Apr 2001 10:46:35 -0500, 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
My advice is :
hda1 swap (Will be shared by debian/LFScratch) (2*amount of RAM)
hda2 / (for the first Linux distribution (debian)) 2000Mo
hda3 Let it free for the Linux from scratch 2000Mo
hda4 /home (Will be shared by debian/LFScratch) All you have after
Francois
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