-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 D Bhardwaj wrote: > Thanks to all for the responses (last week). Good news - I finally managed a > clean install with Suse10 last Friday so I am sticking with that distro. I > started to explore, after discovering Yast, I installed more packages, > including php, mysql, apache, samba, postgresql + dependencies. > > I had used the default base install. > Now I have figured out that it defaulted to 2 partitions (1. swap, 2. / which > is reisernfs). > So now after all this I am thinking of a re-install and re-partition as > follows(based on readup on the net) and using ext3 instead(this is based on > hearsay not my knowledge): > swap > /boot > /var > /home > Does this look reasonable and how should the sizing look like?
There are quite a lot of opinions on this. I don't usually bother with a seperate /home as most users won't have an actual account on the box (email, samba, ftp/sftp etc is better with LDAP) I also prefer reiser to ext3, but either is a good choice. > > I have been told 'swat' is a good gui for configuring samba config, for the > unfamiliar. Comments? > > Although I wanted something similar to the Windows ldap based Active > Directory, I am told to take a few steps back from openldap at this point. The answer is a solid maybe. Active Directory is huge. I am sure you have heard this before, but it all depends on what you *need*. If you have not used any of the LDAP functions of AD, then chances are you may not need to worry about openLDAP. HAving said that I picked up a good book on migrating from Windows to Linux on the server. This book was very good in that it did not expect a high level of linux experience, but it did not try to avoid things like LDAP. I forgot what the exact title was, but I will check when I get home. > > I was testing Suse9.3 Enterprise at home, the os doesn't tell me how many > days are left before it quits on me? I guess I could wait for that day- > anyone tried this? Sorry, I can't be of help here. I/we avoid SuSe. > > Apologies for so many questions! None needed. You'll find that you never stop asking them, which is a good thing. > > Dharam > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDTZOjwRXgH3rKGfMRAuRzAJwKkHvshUWv6Xc7cM3RRoy02P2gWQCfcVQw kItarKoI+SZMsmg0qDAZKKY= =rx7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
