Re: large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
gary turner: > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and > temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my app

Re: large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
gary turner wrote: > After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB > HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a

large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread gary turner
After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox).

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread Jeff D
Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread Nelson Castillo
> > I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on > > copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great > > to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able > > to log into root and run apt-get while on the road. > > Ju

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread nullman
> I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. > > I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on > copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great > to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able > to log

Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able to log into root a

Major problem with boot disk and reading HD partition

2003-01-16 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, I've kinda buggered up my install of Linux, anyhow, I booted my ram disk from my floppy disks. However, when I mount a Linux partition of my HD install I cannot read the contents of any of the directories what gives? Is there no way to read and manipulate the contents on the hard dri

Re: FW: HD Partition

1999-06-11 Thread Brad
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > Well, since I already have my filesystem "scattered" into different > partitions, `df' is useful. But yes, I should have said `du /dir' (for > every directory we want to keep in a separate partition) for someone whose > system is all in one partition. d

Re: FW: HD Partition

1999-06-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Brad dixit: ~> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, ~> ~> Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the ~> entire partition is using, sort of useless unless you're simply resizing ~> par

Re: FW: HD Partition

1999-06-11 Thread Brad
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the entire partition is using, sort of useless unless you're simply resizing partitions without changing the file

FW: HD Partition

1999-06-10 Thread J Horacio MG
Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, and that will give you an idea of the percentage space you need for each one. For directories which include others, like "/", you can do `df' and substract the rest. The dir "/root" should remain in "/", no need to make a sep

Re: HD Partition

1999-06-10 Thread Brad
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i have an 8.4GB hard drive and i would like some suggestion as to how to > divide it. how much space should i devote to each directory and which > ones should be real partitions and which should be logical? I've just been asking this question in the p

HD Partition

1999-06-10 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i have an 8.4GB hard drive and i would like some suggestion as to how to divide it. how much space should i devote to each directory and which ones should be real partitions and which should be logical? /usr = /home = /etc = /tmp = /root = /

Installation from Win95-Fat32 HD partition?

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
It is possible to install debian2.0 from Win95 (Fat32) HD partition? If so, could someone explain how to do it? I have not found information in "The Can I after having installed the base system from 5 floppies just on the other console 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95' ? Which mo