Hi ! I thank you all for the informations you gave me about disk partitioning.
I now have a running box :) with Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1, not Red Hat 5.0 :). The bad news are that I can't run the Xserver :( I'll put this question in an another thread. Regards, Max > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 18 22:30 MET 1998 > To: Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Partitioning questions. > From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 18 Jun 1998 22:40:25 +0200 > > Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > Today's is a great day. A friend of mine and I are going > > to have our boxes. > > > > I'm in trouble: I need to have the boxes ready quickly. > > i've ordered Hamm CDs, but haven't received them yet. All > > I've available is RH5.0 CDs. > > > > i'm _going_ to install it _first_. The way I would like to > > do this job is that I should be able to overwrite this > > distribution, once I've received the Debian CDs. _Without_ > > destroying my data. > > > > How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition > > mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have: > > > > '/' <- a root partition, > > '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo). > > > > -1- To achieve what I want to do, I'll have to make a '/home' > > partition. Correct ? > > Yes. > > > -2- my friend an I have a 3Go and 4Go HDs resp. How many > > space should I give to the root partition (M$ mu$hroom will also > > be present: ~400Mo) ? That's the bootable partition and therefore, it > > will contains all the system file. True ? > > No. The dos partition will just contain that. During the install > another partition is made bootable and you may choose on bootup which > one to run. > > Root ( == "/" ) will contain, /root, some mount > points ( /dos, /fd, /mnt, /home ), the configuration files ( /etc ) and /usr > where most of the files will reside. > > This is my system (some free partitions are missing): > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hda3 50749 12556 35573 26% / > /dev/md0 991000 705500 234289 75% /usr > /dev/hda6 495714 57999 412114 12% /var > /dev/hdc3 792800 717912 33923 95% /home > /dev/hdc4 2737799 2545005 51233 98% /home/ftp/pub2 > /dev/hda1 923040 240576 682464 26% /dos > > (Don´t get confused by the names for the partitions --- I run this > system for about 6 month now. So the "used" figures give some idea what > is needed for a medium/heavy development site :). /home/ftp/pub2 is a > hamm debian mirror. > > > > > -3- Once I've my Debian CDs, how to overwrite the RH files ? > > Best is, you partition your hard disk according to your needs right > now and just do a fresh install of debian (without overwriting /home). > (AFAIK the layout of files in /etc differs, so you will get files > lying around, if you install debian above redhat.) > > HTH, > > Jens > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter > Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
