Sunil Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
on Friday, October 27, 2000 4:49 PM
> My name is Sunil Varghese from Ahmedabad and I am a linux lover. As mentioned in
> PC -Quest magazine I tried to install linux on my system but I failed.
Planing your partitions in Linux pays,
1. First of all you need to create a swap partition at least 2-4 time of
you RAM i.e. 128 MB or 256 MB, better 128 MB, if .
2. Create a /boot partition 16-24 MB.
3. Create a /Home partition of size appx.. (N x 200) MB where n is
number of user accounts you may plan to create.
4. Create a / partition for some 1.5 to 2 GB
5. It better to create a separate /var partition depending upon the
appx.. size of your database plus some 16-24 MB for log and other temp
files or better even to allocate rest of all the store for this very
partition.
The advantage with this approach is that if you reinstall/upgrade Linux
later, you won't need to save or backup your personal and important
files. you will just need to choose not to format your /home and, or
/var partitions. Other partitioning plans include separate partitions
for /usr and /tmp depending on the exact use and, or available hard disk
space.
Now reinstall the RH 7.x or any flavor you like, choose either MBR or
boot through any dam primary or even secondary partition, or /boot here,
to boot from, it definitely will solve you problem for ever. My
suggestion is /boot, pl don't ask before you try.
--
Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Every scheme is scam, every program is a provision and every research
is replication"
-- Prof. Parbhaker
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