[aclug-L] Re: setting up new computer

[Bob_Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Reinke wrote:
> 
> >put the cd in the drive and turn it on.
> 
> I hadn't thought of that - PCs will do that automatically?
> 
> Okay, assuming that works, I'll need to format the hard drive. I've seen it
> many times in many places, but I don't remember the reasoning behind it -
> how many partitions should I have, ideally, for a computer that will be a
> network server, workstation, and possibly a web/mail server on the net?

Minimum is most likely 2 partitions.  One for swap and another that
holds everything else.

There may be reasons for having more partitions... Some folks like to
have some of the scratch partitions seperate...

I personally run 4 partitions plus one for swap...

"swap"  256 Meg
/      1024 Meg  (Growable)
/usr   3072 Meg  (Growable but not over 4 Gig)
/tmp    300 Meg
/boot   500 Meg  (Keep this the FIRST partition on the drive!)

I keep /tmp off on it's own so some error in a program that creates
large temp files won't fill up the drive... I try to keep /usr sized
large enough to hold any software I might want to install (it usually
goes into /usr), and I put /boot down low and keep all my kernels there
so they are below the 1024 Cylinder LILO limit...

I put the rest on /, but you might want to reserve a few Gig for future
use...

As to how this is accomplshed by Red Hat Install, just use Disk Druid..
It's straight foreward... 

I think that there is a "workstation" install option that bypasses all
this... I'm not sure what it does with partitions though...

> John
> 
> >On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, John Reinke wrote:
> >
> >> Forgive the simplicity of this post, but I've always worked with PCs that
> >> already had some OS installed, and I now have a new computer. It has a
> >> CD-ROM drive, a floppy, and an empty 13 gig hard drive, and I need to
> >> install Linux. All I have is the Red Hat 6 CD that came with the computer,
> >> although I hope to graduate to Debian ASAP. (I should mention that I just
> >> got cable modem access, so that can be used for large downloads if needed.)
> >>
> >> Um.. er.. where do I start?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John Reinke

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