[linux-help] Re: Potato install

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

For your partitioning question:

I did exactly the same thing with my SparcStation 2 (2
411MB Hard drives).  What I did is create two
partitions "/", which went on the first hard drive and
"/home", which went on the second hard drive.  Then I
told Samba to share the directory /home/samba and also
give users access to their individual home directories
when they are logged in.  It's worked great for
several months now.

--- Nathan <ncozzens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been messing around with installing Potato.  A
> few questions...
> 
> Partitioning:
> If I don't choose a mount point for some of the
> partitions I've 
> initialized, will they get used for anything?
> 
> One of the suggested mount points is /boot.  How
> will this get used?  Is it 
> worth having?  Should I just stick with /?
> 
> I'm using two 545MB drives on my 486.  I want to
> keep my partitioning 
> scheme as simple as possible.  The intended purpose
> for this machine will 
> be FILE SERVER.  I'd like to install Samba and give
> my Windows box a place 
> to automatically backup certain directories.  I'm
> assuming this data would 
> be put in /var....correct?
> 
> 
> 
> Choosing Packages:
> I've installed Potato twice on this 486.  (I
> actually got the NFS install 
> to work using my Win95 NFS server!)
> On both installs, I ran into the same problem.  Due
> to a lack of 
> understanding the key mapping, I accidentally exited
> the package selection 
> program before I was ready.  The first time, I ended
> up with zero 
> packages.  The second time, I ended up with only a
> few.  How can I get back 
> into the package selection program without starting
> the installation over 
> from scratch?
> 
> Nathan
> 
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