Re: What's the best way to organize "small" drives
David:
I believe you are given the opportunity to mount multiple partitions
during the installation process. At the very least, you should mount
/ and /usr on two separate (largest) partitions. These are the
directories that fill up quickly. Some people also choose to mount
/home, /usr/local, and /tmp separately as well. You should mount
all of the available partitions when you're given the chance during
the installation.
Marc
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Marc Mongeon <mongeon@bankoe.com>
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"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
>>> "David Forcey" <dforcey@cameron.k12.wi.us> 07/02 12:42 PM >>>
NEWBIE ALERT!
I just installed slink on a 486-100 (Windows throwaway) with 3 salvaged
drives (each 540 MB). I partitioned them as follows:
hda1 boot Primary Linux ext2 250.4MB
hda2 Primary Linux Swap 63.99 MB
hda3 Primary Linux 201.8 MB
hdb1 Primary Linux ext2 515.82 MB
hdc1 Primary Linux 515.82 MB
When I chose the type of system I wanted during the installation, it found
the packages and began downloading them, then ran out of disk space. Should
I have made the boot partition larger? Or is there a proper way to have the
packages moved or installed on one of the other partitions? What am I
missing here?
Thanks for any help you can give to a future contributor.
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David S. Forcey
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