gentoo does tend to accumulate a lot of disk space, as by default it does not delete source files after you have compiles them (and thats a good thing, cos you may need to recompile it again next week, or the next version may just be a patch).
my work server, no X [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 1.9G 152M 1.8G 8% / /dev/vg/usr 15G 2.9G 13G 19% /usr /dev/vg/var 2.0G 264M 1.8G 13% /var /dev/vg/tmp 1.0G 33M 992M 4% /tmp /dev/vg/home 20G 528M 20G 3% /home my home machine, ignore /home as it is full of movies and music.it has kde and gnome. du --max-depth=1 -h 57M ./tftpboot 0 ./dev 661M ./opt 0 ./sys 11M ./boot 1.2G ./tmp 6.7M ./sbin 1.9G ./root 6.5M ./bin 42M ./lib 37G ./home 48M ./etc 1.8G ./var 16K ./lost+found 7.3G ./usr On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:40:44 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I am prepared to this level. Gentoo-ready. > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >If you want to play with distros my recommendation is: > > > >get suffcient hard disk space to run more than 1 distro on the machine. > >A 40 G hard drive would give you, say, 3 distros at 10G plus a 10G > >/media partition for your mp3s and pr0n. > > > > > With neither of these of interest to me, would 5-6GB partitions suffice? > I have 4 available, plus a FAT32 share with the duel-boot XP (12GB). > > >find a distro that suits your needs from day to day and install it on > >part of the disk. run your bootloader (lilo or grub) off this distro as > >it will be the stable one. > > > >use the rest of the disk to trial installs on, updating your lilo/grub > >on the stable install. When installing a trial distro do NOT let it > >install a boot loader or play with the mbr. go back to the stable distro > >and amend its lilo/grub to boot the new distro. (finding the correct > >parameters can be a pain). I find grub works better than lilo for this, > >but each to his own. > > > >you can use the same swap partition for all your distros. > > > > > Done. 1GB. > > Thanks > > ~/rik > > -- > InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
