I have a 14 gig drive I wanted to devote entirely to Debian Linux or FreeBSD.
I made the Deb boot floppies, booted up, and got stymied at the Partition hard disk step in `cfdisk'. It showed me the whole disk, which at the time had FreeBSD 3.1 on it. I figured I needed partitions for root = 100 Mb swap = 512 Mb /usr = rest of disk so.... I couldn't figure out how to size the partition. Did I need to make a Linux Partition first, then size that. And why does the Linux Swap partition appear as a seperate entity in cfdisk->type list? Gave up. Went over to FreeBSD, made 2 floppies, followed steps, defaults for everything including partitioning. Started a network install, went to bed, woke up and rebooted into FreeBSD 4.1. with Debian I couldn't figure out how to go. I copied a bunch of files onto a DOS partition on a second drive in my machine, not the one I wanted Linux installed on. Got confused. Then decided to make a CD-image, but never finished. Then while scanning the documentation, found something that said you could do a network install and you only needed 2 floppies. But then I thought I remembered reading on the mail list that its not supported. plus in the install manual for Debian 2.2, it says you probably will need 2-3 gigs for /var so you can do an `apt' update in the future. what's that all about?? After all this, I'm still interested in installing Debian Linux. I guess I just need to experiment more. hmmm.... I have partition magic 4.x, and it lets me created a Linux extended partition - what's that? Can I use that? running out of midnight oil - greg strockbine
