On Fri, Apr 13, 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is a real newbie question. I am in the process of > installing Debian Potato r2 on a > brand new machine I just built. It has a factory clean 30G IDE hard > drive and AMD K6-2/500. I put the Debian CD in the CDRom and booted. > I have selected the US qwerty keyboard. Now I am ready to partition the > hard drive. I would like some suggestions as to how to best partition > the drive. I want this to be a Debian only machine and I would also > like to have one partition to do the Linux From Scratch project at a > later date. > I would like to hear suggestions you might have or experieces. Thanks > for your help.
George, Hi. You'd probably get the following link suggested to you by its author (Karsten) pretty soon, but just in case you're in a rush to read up, a very well-written guide to partitioning Debian is the following: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Take care, Daniel > > George > > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
