On Mon, 06 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hello All,
> Can someone give me an Idea what is the best way to set up my hard drive
> partitions for linux. I have 6110 set aside for linux with a swap of 256mb
> I have a asus board running duel pentium2 350's with 256mb ram. what i mean
> is i set it up with it all in / should i have split the thing into like a /usr/
> and the such?
> Also I wanted to thank everyone who has helped me the last few times.
>
Well, you might want to make about 3 partitions....one for /home, one
for /usr and one for /. That way, if you have to reinstall, /home
MIGHT be able to be spared a reformat. And if you have a separate "/"
directory, it's more likely that the kernel will be within the first
1024 cylinders.
John
