On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 06:34:09PM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote: > I have set aside about 17GB for the /home directory. > > I will be using a small router with a four port switch with DHCP set up. > > My question was very incomplete here it is. > > 1 Should I set up the ftp directory in the /home or in a different directory
It is not critically important. If you plan to experiment, I suggest making one big partition as large as possible and mounting it under /part1 or somesuch. Then create /home and /export as symlinks to directories under /part1. > 2 How much space will I need. As much as you can spare, you can use. Mike set up a full Debian mirror on the LUGOD demo machine recently, which fit in 18G. (Mike: can you elaborate?) > 3 I am not sure how to set this up. I was looking at jigdo-file, but I am not > sure if that is the correct direction to go. I suspect that a full or partial Debian mirror (just as you find scattered around the 'Net) will serve you better for installations. A few floppies are sufficient to start an installation, the base tarball and packages being gotten from the server via FTP. Or you can use a CD to boot and bring up the net, but get base and all packages from FTP, ensuring that everything is current. I believe Debian installers also can use HTTP. If you already know how to set up HTTP, that is a better choice. Several popular FTP servers have poor security records. Perhaps Mike can explain to you how to create the mirror. I have created partial mirrors myself, but have given up the practice in favor of a squid cache. On the other hand, ISO images are chiefly useful for burning CDs. > 4 I plan to have non-Debian files available for download such as patches for > Red Hat and for Laptops the fiels and configuration scripts from > linux-laptop.net. Should be fine; just give them their own directories. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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