Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Greg Madden (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> You won't find that setup to be a good idea. Woody doesn't put >>> great amounts of data to /usr/local (I just checked, my directory >>> is 106 byte), so the 5G there are a bit of wasted there. > > The LSB/FSH has deprecated /usr/local and now i

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:18:35AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > The LSB/FSH has deprecated /usr/local and now it is /opt. I see no such deprecation in the latest version of the FHS (or any previous version). The two have slightly different purposes. -- Colin Watson

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-13 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2004 12:23 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jonathan Schmitt (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Hallo, > > in addition to the other poster, > > > >>/ 100M > >>/swap 512M > >>/boot 15M > >>/usr

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Jack Falstaff wrote: > > /tmp100M > this may be too small for some program I like to have a gig or so for /tmp, so I can mkisofs into it before writing CD-Rs. -- Pigeon Be kin

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jonathan Schmitt (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hallo, > in addition to the other poster, > >>/ 100M >>/swap 512M >>/boot 15M >>/usr 5G >>/usr/local5G >>/var 7G >>/tmp 100M >>/home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Jack Falstaff wrote: > > I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and > Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand holding > with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a nightmare. For > the

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, in addition to the other poster, >/ 100M >/swap 512M >/boot 15M >/usr 5G >/usr/local 5G >/var 7G >/tmp 100M >/home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G You won't find that setup to be a good idea. Woody does

Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jack Falstaff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and > Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand > holding with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a > nightmare. For the last attempt

FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.

2004-03-12 Thread Jack Falstaff
I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand holding with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a nightmare. For the last attempt I defined a partition scheme as follows: / 1