on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:46:00PM -0400, ThinKer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello all,
I am in need of some Newbie help. If this is the wrong list, can
someone please tell me the correct list on which to post these
questions. (BTW - I've read the installation manual on this a couple of
On -5920-Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:08:38PM -0500, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake
thus,
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Most programs honor the TMPDIR environment variable. Just set
TMPDIR=/place/with/lots/of/space and you should be fine. If the software
you're using doesn't honor TMPDIR, file a
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 15:12, Kent West wrote:
ThinKer wrote:
Thanks to input from Kent and Bret, I have decided to do the following
...
/200 MB /dev/hda1 primary
/usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 primary
/var 500MB /dev/hda3 primary
/tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 primary
swap /dev/hdc1 1.2GB primary
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:13, Kent West wrote:
ThinKer wrote:
What do I do with the rest of the space on the 1.2 GB drive? Someone
suggested that I use the entire drive as swap space as doing that would
speed up the system tremendously. Does this make sense? If not the
enitre drive,
Micha Feigin wrote:
Make sure to have enough in tmp too if you use music/video rip/encoding
or graphic programs as they tend to use large temp files.
Ah, good point. I've run into problems on several occassions when
downloading large files (such as .ISOs, etc) via a program that first
saves
Kent West said on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:27:40AM -0500:
Micha Feigin wrote:
Make sure to have enough in tmp too if you use music/video rip/encoding
or graphic programs as they tend to use large temp files.
Ah, good point. I've run into problems on several occassions when
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Most programs honor the TMPDIR environment variable. Just set
TMPDIR=/place/with/lots/of/space and you should be fine. If the software
you're using doesn't honor TMPDIR, file a bug. :)
M
Ah, thanks for the tip!
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On Sunday 27 July 2003 17:05, Rthoreau wrote:
ThinKer softly asked,
So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is
asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of
/dev/hda
/dev/hdc
and
/dev/hdd.
Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much
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| Hello all,
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| I am currently trying to install Debian as my fourth Linux
| distribution. I have used Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE in the past and I
| wanted a more challengeing installation so that I might learn more about
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ThinKer wrote:
Thanks to input from Kent and Bret, I have decided to do the following
...
/200 MB /dev/hda1 primary
/usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 primary
/var 500MB /dev/hda3 primary
/tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 primary
swap /dev/hdc1 1.2GB primary
/home /dev/hdd1 4.1GB primary
Questions...
1. When I
Hello all,
I am in need of some Newbie help. If this is the wrong list, can
someone please tell me the correct list on which to post these
questions. (BTW - I've read the installation manual on this a couple of
times and now I am even more confused than before I read it.)
I am currently trying
ThinKer wrote:
Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB -- This is /dev/hda
Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB-- This is /dev/hdb
Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB -- This is /dev/hdd
So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is
asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of
ThinKer wrote:
How should I allocate this space? I deleted one of the drives and
selected 'NEW'. Then it asks me [Primary] [Logical] [Cancel] , so I
selected 'Primary'. Gave it the full size and now I have no idea what to
do. I am not really sure what I just did.
Oh yeah; I meant to mention.
Thanks for the information, but I do have a question about your
suggested partitioning.
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:48, Kent West wrote:
Everybody has their own ideas of how best to partition. I would probably
do the following:
/ 200 MB /dev/hda1 primary
/usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 logical (or
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 22:46, ThinKer wrote:
Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB
Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB
Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB
/dev/hda = primary master
/dev/hdc = secondary master
and
/dev/hdd. = secondary slave
Primary slave is /dev/hdb.
At least as I understand it. Are you sure
ThinKer wrote:
Thanks for the information, but I do have a question about your
suggested partitioning.
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 23:48, Kent West wrote:
Everybody has their own ideas of how best to partition. I would probably
do the following:
/ 200 MB /dev/hda1 primary
/usr 2500MB /dev/hda2
ThinKer wrote:
What do I do with the rest of the space on the 1.2 GB drive? Someone
suggested that I use the entire drive as swap space as doing that would
speed up the system tremendously. Does this make sense? If not the
enitre drive, how much would be the max?
Sorry; neglected to answer your
ThinKer softly asked,
So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is
asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of
/dev/hda
/dev/hdc
and
/dev/hdd.
Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much experience with
partitioning. I would suggest you
Thanks to input from Kent and Bret, I have decided to do the following
...
/200 MB /dev/hda1 primary
/usr 2500MB /dev/hda2 primary
/var 500MB /dev/hda3 primary
/tmp 100MB /dev/hda4 primary
swap /dev/hdc1 1.2GB primary
/home /dev/hdd1 4.1GB primary
Questions...
1. When I delete the drive
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