FYI: Installing Debian 2.0(and 1.3.0 prior to it), SuSE 5.2 and RH 5.1 I chose to create three partitions: /, /usr, and /home. SuSE, also, got a /opt as that was suggested for those planning to use KDE and Netscape. It was fairly easy, particularly in SuSE and Debian, being carried out during the install. During initialization of Linux partitions I just created additional partitions rather than immediately continuing to the next step in the insatllation. The "default" partition, e.g. /usr, would come up giving me the option to choose, which one I wanted to install. I might add that I had already created the actual partitions with preplanned sizes. I might add I had earlier attempted to install a swap partition on an IDE HDD while using an UDMA for my various other partitions. It did not work very well(read very poorly) and resulted in the only time to date I've seen my swap partition fill up and begin to page out. I'm guessing the IDE is just too slow, but perhaps there is some other reason. Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com Penguin inside! Now THAT'S Cool! On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:20:42 -0500 Michael Lankton <satan3@home.com> writes:
try a / and a /usr partition you may be able to symlink /home to /usr/home if you don't want /home in /, that's how FreeBSD does it anyway, haven't tried that in linux
Arun K. Khan wrote:
Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what
wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem and the rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only user, I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp etc.
I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions (one for / and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some
really pointers.
Thx, Arun Khan
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