Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-28 Thread Eddie Katz
The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine background reading. After reading it, I decided to put /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib on the same partition, but different from the /usr partition. I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local

Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local direc tory. I am new to Debian (not to LInux), have a 1.3 installed and my /usr/local is completly empty. I believe that dpkg installs everything in /usr/lib. Is ther e a

Re: Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 - partitioning matters

1997-06-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to maintain a clean machine. ;-) The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine