On 13 Apr 2001 10:46:35 -0500, 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
My advice is : hda1 swap (Will be shared by debian/LFScratch) (2*amount of RAM) hda2 / (for the first Linux distribution (debian)) 2000Mo hda3 Let it free for the Linux from scratch 2000Mo hda4 /home (Will be shared by debian/LFScratch) All you have after Francois
