Is there any real reason to use partitions on a laptop
since they are small hard drives? thankx On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jordan Evatt wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:19:10 -0500 > From: Jordan Evatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: laptop installation > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Hi there. Long time debian user here, since slink... but I've run into some > problems recently. My laptop (Dell Inspiron 3200) has been kinda out of > action for the last 6 or 8 weeks with some video hardware problems, but now > those seem to be resolved after several trips to the Dell factory. Since I > got it back this past Tuesday, I've been attempting to get debian back on > it and up to a usable state of woody (heh). I was doing this from school, > where they have a 100mbps microwave connection to the school's local isp, > so I was averaging about 85-90k/s from eecs.umich.edu ;). > > Anyway, these are my problems. The only debian cd I have in posession is an > old-as-mud slink cd (which btw uses kernel 2.0.36), and since I'm devoting > my laptop's entire hard drive to linux, this is the only way I decided I > could install debian. So I proceeded to install the base system off the > slink cd and configure it for network use so I could dist-upgrade from > there. Next, I thought it would be wise to dist-upgrade from slink to > potato, instead of right from slink to woody, so I did so. No problems > there. Things started getting really sketchy when I did the dist-upgrade > from potato to woody. Everything downloaded fine (using apt-get -f > dist-upgrade), but then it said it had to temporarily remove perl-base > before it could proceed, but it couldn't. Apt suggested I pass the > APT::Force-LoopBreak to apt-get (by using apt-get dist-upgrade -o > APT::Force-LoopBreak=yes) to force it to proceed. So I did, and it worked, > until it had to use some perl scripts that wanted IO.pm, and puked. > Everything stopped working then, because there were about 13 packages that > couldn't be configured (from base). What I didn't realize at the time, > however, was that IO.pm was a part of the actual perl package (perl5.6 in > woody's case, and perl-5.005 in potato's case), and not perl-base. Stupid > me, because I realized this right when I had to leave, so I would have to > start over the next day. > > So I started over (today). I had slink already installed before I got to > school, so all I had to do was dist-upgrade to potato and then woody. I > remembered this time, however, to install the perl package before upgrading > in case anything needed it. The reason for not including this in the first > place was because I was just upgrading the base, without installing > anything extra at all, which I probably shouldn't have done. That's besides > the point though. Anyway, it seemed to work, because upgrading to woody now > found IO.pm and all the other stuff it needed to have. So that worked OK. > However, I then ran into another problem when dpkg was configuring > modutils. It couldn't finish configuring modutils, because there was this > little error: > > error: QM_MODULES: function not implemented > > I have a strong urge to think this has something to do with the existing > kernel on my system, which had been installed from slink's 2.0.36 base > installation. Am I correct in assuming this, and do I need to start over > again after upgrading the system to a 2.2 kernel before dist-upgrading to > woody so it'll be able to configure modutils? Has anyone else run into this > problem yet? I'm almost considering switching back to slackware on my > laptop and using debian on my pc's, because it's there's just SO much > downloading involved with unstable (as always, and yes I'm used to it > because I used potato in unstable state for a long long time), and my > laptop isn't all that fast (p2-266 on 64mb of ram). Suggestions are welcome. > > One final note... How would you guys recommend partitioning a 4gb hard > drive? :) I don't really want to use one big partition, which I've been > doing for a long time, so I decided to split it up this installation. I > tried an 800mb /, 1200mb /home, 1800mb /usr, and 250mb /var (which actually > isn't big enough since downloading deb packages can take well over 300mb, > so that'll HAVE to be bigger). The rest (about 60mb) was devoted to swap. I > feel like I need to learn about partitioning schemes :). > > Thanks for the help, and good luck to all you developers. I'll be joining > you soon ;) > > - Jordan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email > http://e.themes.org - php developer (yes, i really am) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
