db wrote: >Civileme, > >I'm back by the machine and able to give your last suggestions a whirl. I >also looked up your article that you referred me to. Reading it, causes me >to ask ... will the person creating the data with the app in 5.1 be able to >boot into 8.1 to burn it into a CD ... and if so, do I have to do anything >at this stage to make this possible? > >Another question would be: are all the partitions necessary for this >install? The reason I ask is that I am not sure how much data will be >produced and therefore am not sure how big to make the partitions (the >researcher has two gigs of data on CD to input/process with the app. ...) >Seems like since I am unsure of the particulars, if I don't commit to >specialized partitions (other than /, /boot, and swap) then the situation is >more flexible? > >dan > > >>Since you are looking at a reinstall. may I recommend this? >> >>/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows (Windows C: drive) >>/dev/hda2 /RHroot 200M ext2 >>/dev/hda3 /mnt/dos Your extra FAT32 (Windows D: drive) >>/dev/hda5 / 250M (Hidden from you is that hda4 is used as a >>pointer to the rest of the disk and >>its extended partitions) ext3 >>/dev/hda6 swap 400M >>/dev/hda7 /usr 2.5G or larger ext3 >>/dev/hda8 /home 1G or larger ext3 >>/dev/hda9 /var 1G or larger ext3 >>/dev/hda10 /RHhome large ext2 >>/dev/hda11 swap 127M (old kernel 2.0.x systems limit swap size) >>/dev/hda12 /RHusr 1G or so ext2 >>/dev/hda13 /RHvar 200M or more ext2 >>/dev/hda14 /opt 2G or more if you have a powerpack and intend to >> >use > >> commercial programs ext3 >> >>Yes in the RH install when it asks for swap, point it at /dev/hda11... >> >>Now, to make the primary and secondary start the mandrake install, >> >>delete all partitions except the first winpartition >> >>Click on the blank area then on "create" and choose >> >>/RHroot as mount point >>200M as size >>Preference as primary >> >>do the same again--click on blank area then on "create" >> >>/mnt/dos >>whatever size >>Preference as Primary or windows won't see it >> >>do the same creation again >>/ for mount point >>250M size >>Preference can be left default and it will be extended >> >>Then make the rest in the order specified. >> >>leave a couple of partitions at the end as ext2 for future expansion, >>say spare1 and spare2... Both RH and Mandrake should be able to see them. >> >> >>Civileme >> > > If you have ONLY a / partition, then /var, /usr, /home will all be competing for space... /var holds the logs, and on 5.1 /home is going to have the ftp and http stuff. You can combine it all but then you had best make /RHroot very large.
A separate /boot is unnecessary since the 1024 cylinder boundary is no longer a problem. /boot of 10-20Mb is typical, but use your felsibility argument and all you need is / and swap--course, if ever you want to update, you begin to hate that everything is in /. Civileme
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