partitioning strategy

hi there, a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the kernel smaller in order to accomodate lilo. what i'm

Re: partitioning strategy

Robert Goodwin wrote: hi there, a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the kernel smaller in order to

Re: partitioning strategy

Hi Robert, Here are the partitions on my 9.1GB SCSI drive: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 99M 19M74M 21% / /dev/sda5 623M 332M 259M 56% /usr /dev/sda6 144M 15K 137M 0% /tmp /dev/sda7

Re: partitioning strategy

Yeah, this is the right idea. However, rather than make a small root partition and then tons of others to mount in it instead just create a small partition called /boot. Actually, the setup debian gives you by default stores the kernel, along with the other files lilo needs, in /boot. You'll note

Partitioning strategy

I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk. Following other people's experience on this list, I was going to try Swap64MB (there's 32M memory) /