Re: Debian installation
Hi Chris
On (21/05/03 22:15), Chris Short wrote:
> From: "Chris Short" <cshort@blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Debian installation
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 22:15:03 +0100
>
> I just wanted a nice simple, stable Linux and plopped for Debian after the
> reviews I read.
>
> No fancy front end installing - that's cool.
>
> Problem is I have a VERY basic install - using CD disk 1.
>
> However when I try to install ANY extra packages with the standard
> base-config, I always get out of space message.
>
> Any hints would be great.
>
> I have partitioned the drive as
> 100mb for multiboot
> 9gig for main
> 1gig for swap
>
> Thanks for any help
Try something like
/ 100Mb
swap (size of your ram)
swap (size of your ram)
/usr 1Gb (where program files reside)
/var 300Mb
/tmp 300Mb
/home the rest (where user files reside)
Here's my file setup for a desktop machine running KDE (I've got one
swap file 384Mb but I read somewhere that two can improve response -
I've used two on lower spec machinery). If you're multibooting on a PC
you might want to look at GRub (Yaboot for Macs)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda11 97M 62M 30M 67% /
/dev/hda13 1.4G 937M 464M 67% /usr
/dev/hda14 484M 72M 387M 16% /var
/dev/hda15 484M 468k 458M 1% /tmp
/dev/hda16 11G 120M 10G 2% /home
HTH
Clive
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