Look in the mail archives for Ethan Benson's detail advice and howtos on partitioning for PowerMacintosh's.
Since you only have a 1GB drive, I would not worry about creating seperate partitions for /home, /etc, /var ... Just have one partition for everything. If you intstall more drives later, you can partition them the way you want, copy the information from /home (for example) to the new drive/partition and then mount the new drive/partition to /home. Use the linux partitioner (cfdisk) that comes with the debian install disks/cd. Choose the drive and create a 64MB linux swap partition and have the rest as a linux ext2 partition. That's all you need. Brendan Simon. Aaron Davies wrote: > I'm going to be installing Debian on a 1GB internal SCSI drive, and I'd like > some advice on partitioning. I have a version of drive setup that can make > A/UX partitions, or I can boot into the setup from BootX and use the > partitioner there. I know I need a swap partition (~64MB, right, since I have > 64MB of RAM?) and at least one "linux native" partition, but I understand > it's better to have separate partitions for some, if not all, of the root > directories (/home, /var, /etc, etc.), so I'd like advice on how much space > to give each partition. Also, using the partition tool from the rescue disk, > do I need to use the "C" command or the "c" command to make the partitions? > If "C", what type do I specify? I tried "Linux_Swap", and the installer > doesn't recognize it. I tried "Linux Swap" and got an error. BTW, I'm not > going to be using this installation for anything fancy, like a big server or > a firewall, it's just sort of for messing around and learning linux. Thanx!
