gecko@freecar.com wrote:

On 13-Mar-98 Paul groves wrote:

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around with RedHat), does the following sound like a sensible partition set-up (for a single user dialup\graphics workstaion)*?:

(snip) / 100Mb

Nope...

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/home 100Mb

possibly... see below.

I find I run out of space in my home directory a lot either /root or /home which ever. Even though I'm single user, I still store most of my stuff in /home/gecko.. the stuff I"m working with playing with...

<snip> Unless your installing SuSE in an extremely stripped down moed, I've found that / needs to be around 450MB at least for all the goodies you will invariably want to install. You COULD get it installed with a default kernel in 100MB but you would have few applications, little documentation and probably not be able to get the source code installed with gcc to roll a new kernel. My advice... Up the hard drive to AT LEAST 450MB for / best, -- William J. Sandman III Need Windows95 or better? sandman@aye.net Linux... It's not just for wsandman@acm.org breakfast anymore. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e