More mainstream . . .

[Tony Hammitt]

Exactly what I was going to say.  It's not like you need to worry about
having LILO at less than 1024 cylinders on a 400MB drive.  You may
even be able to get away with having less swap, but you shouldn't have
any problems installing an X-less workstation in less than 400MB.  For
that I'd recommend Slackware, it's great at smallish hard drive installs
(right Hal? :-)

Have fun,

    Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jthomas at revbiz.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: More mainstream . . .

> I may be in the minority here but with at drive that small, Id make a 
> 64 mb swap and use the rest as /
> 
> James Thomas
> RBC, Inc.
> jthomas at revbiz.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bradmiller [mailto:bradmiller at dslonramp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:22 PM
> To: kclug
> Cc: bradmiller
> Subject: FW: More mainstream . . .
> 
> 
> Ok, since I have this one Linux box I chuffed with the network card
> install, I decided to load RH 6.2 on it and go from there.   I 
> *thought* I
> had selected to upgrade an existing installation, but evidently that is
> just upgrading from 6.1 to more features on 6.1. . . . right?   It
> installed a bunch of stuff from the 6.2 CD, but now my machine is 
> locked up
> past the Lilo prompt.   I think I'll just wack the drive and start over.
> *SIGH*
> 
> This leads me to the next question -- what's the best way to partition a
> drive?  How much do I need for / and /usr and that????  That's the first
> "Oh my gosh" thin I run into.   The drive in there is like a 400+MB 
> model .
> . . it's small, but this drive will only be to run Linux, networking, 
> and
> enough stuff for decoding MP3's and playing CD's.    I'll stick a 10gig
> (hopefully???) in as drive 2.    Any suggestions???
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
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