Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Jack Falstaff wrote:
>
> I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and
> Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand holding
> with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a nightmare. For
> the last attempt I defined a partition scheme as follows:
FYI: on my system
osamu@dambo:/$ sudo du -sh lib boot etc tmp var
Password:
164M lib
21M boot
42M etc
52K tmp
2.6G var
> / 100M
this may be too small considering you have /etc and /lib here
> /swap 512M
> /boot 15M
Hmmm... with few kernels this may be too small...
> /usr 5G
> /usr/local 5G
Do you intsall non-debian program for local use?
> /var 7G
Wow, are you serving as a mail host?
> /tmp 100M
this may be too small for some program
> /home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G
> Any suggestions?
If you are new to debian, keep it simple. In stall into single
partition. get used to it.
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