I just did a 3.0 install a couple of weeks ago, and here are my numbers. On my root partition, I used about 75M. For my /usr partition, I used ~ 700 MB, and I have /home on a completely separate for my /usr partition. I should also say that though I installed a lot of the developer's tools (compilers, libs, etc.) I didn't install KDE or Gnome. The only window managers I have on my system are twm and blackbox. 3G is a little tight, especially for both MacOS 9 _AND_ linux, and especially if you want to play around in linux. Maybe you set up ~1 GB for MacOS, ~250 MB for your root partition, ~1 GB for /usr and the rest for your swap and /home partitions, that might get you started. As I mentioned, I did not put Gnome or KDE on my system, so I'm not sure how much space the packages for those environments require.
Just my $0.02. Partition allocation is really something that has to be customized according to your wants/needs :) If you want to do something like building your own custom kernel - you are looking right off at ~30 MB for the source archive, and up to 120 MB when it is decompressed to your disk. It MIGHT be the simplest for you to get a 5 - 9 G separate drive and dedicate that for linux ... cheers vinai On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Pedro Carneiro wrote: > Sorry to waist your time with such silly beginners questions, but I have > just been introduced to Debian and am thinking of installing it on an imac > from 1998, with a 3 Giga HD. What do I exactly need to install ? I have an > ADSL connection, which is fairly fast. I am looking into doing 2 partitions, > one of them with OS 9. How big should the partitions be? Any help would be > appreciated. Well, enough for now, many thanks for your patience, greetings > from France!
