On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Cameron Taggart wrote: : >I'm totally unclear as to whether you've already made it through the : >base install, or if you've completed that step, rebooted, and are now : >staring at dselect. : : I am trying to get the base install to work. I am running Win95 OSR B and I : have enabled FAT32 access. I didn't relize the difference. What would the : easiest way be to install Debian? 1)Create a small DOS partition (which I : think Win95 would recognize) and move the install files to it. 2) Just use : disks.
Aha! The easiest way, by far, is to just create the floppies. You will need seven of them, and they should be freshly formatted (you can use Windows to do this). This is really only an issue with the last base disk, since it's not a full floppy image - I once used rawrite on some OS/2 formatted disks and the install was not happy with my 5th base disk. You could make the small partition, but why bother? Unless you have use for it afterwards, it will be wasted. You need to make a boot floppy and a drivers disk anyway. : I have a 4GB SCSI hardrive. 2GB, Win95 will be using and the other 2GB will : be for Linux. How would you suggest that I divide it up to create my : filesystem? I am trying to learn how to use Linux in order to use it as a : mailserver and a webserver using Apache, MySQL, and PHP. How much memory do you have? If you've got less than 16 MB, I like a swap partition twice as large as the memory. If you've got 32 MB or better you can make a swap partition as big as or smaller than your memory. There are many opinions on this, but if you anticipate extensive memory use I like to err on the side of caution when creating swap. On the other hand, you can always add more swap if/when you need it. If you're the only one using the system, one big filesystem is easiest. If you're building a serious production server then you should split up filesystems according to use. Again, this is an area where many opinions prevail, and all of them have merit. Here's what I usually do: / 16 MB /tmp 32-128 MB /var 250-500 MB /var/tmp 32-128 MB /usr 400-1000 MB /home 200-2000 MB (optionally) /var/log 200-800 MB /var/spool depends! /var/spool/mail depends on number of users /var/spool/pop depends on number of users /usr/local I do this on development machines The ranges are dependent on what the system is doing. Here's what our mail server looks like: brahe:~ $ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 31726 14828 15260 49% / /dev/sda4 730507 178663 514110 26% /usr /dev/sdb2 3096718 164315 2772250 6% /home /dev/sda3 253823 13329 227387 6% /var /dev/sdb3 126911 14 120344 0% /tmp /dev/sda5 253822 84292 156423 35% /var/log /dev/sdb5 126910 20 120337 0% /var/tmp /dev/sda6 507582 78320 403048 16% /var/spool/mail /dev/sdb6 507582 1101 480267 0% /var/spool/mqueue /dev/sda7 253822 13 240702 0% /var/spool/pop As you can see, my users aren't real keen on using their space in /home (yet). /tmp and /var/tmp vary wildly. I have /var/spool/mail on its own filesystem to allow quotas on mailboxes. On the other hand, here's a web server: kepler:~ $ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 31109 15471 14032 52% / /dev/sda8 893986 437580 410221 52% /usr /dev/sdb3 3455160 81415 3195022 2% /web /dev/sda5 303251 53664 233926 19% /var /dev/sda9 412118 119936 270898 31% /home /dev/sdb2 497699 29687 442308 6% /var/log /dev/sda6 69965 17 66335 0% /tmp /dev/sda7 127918 36 121056 0% /var/tmp and a utility box: ops:~ $ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda2 31727 11454 18635 38% / /dev/sda3 507583 140145 341224 29% /usr /dev/sda5 297394 47872 234163 17% /var /dev/sda6 247870 81 234990 0% /home /dev/sda7 63454 13 60165 0% /tmp This last machine acts as a print server, and does network monitoring (it's a high powered 486 dx2/66) This is probably just a bunch of blather, but hopefully it'll help. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
