In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted >to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that >I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large >root partition (primary), two smaller logical ones (for /home and /etc) >and a swap partition.
Bad, bad idea. A much better division would be: / 50 MB /usr 100-300 MB /var 100-300 MB swap as much as memory /home the rest >INIT : no inittab >INIT : no default runlevel >No more processes left at this runlevel > >Would this have anything to do with the fact that /etc is in a logical >partition? Yes. /etc HAS to be on the root partition - it contains all the boot scripts, including the stuff that mounts all other partitions. If /etc is on a seperate partition, you have a chicken-egg problem. Mike. -- "Seed me, Seymour" -- a random number generator meets the big green mother from outer space
