Wally Lepore writes:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lee wrote:
>> Wally Lepore writes:
>>
>> Thank you for putting up your questions in such a well made way!
>
>
> I appreciate that. Takes me forever to reply to all posts because I
> need to make sure my questions are 'somewhat' clear. :-)
Am 10.10.2012 um 00:41 schrieb Wally Lepore:
I am at the critical point in the installation process known as the
partition set-up. I have chosen 'manual' set-up for the partitions and
have arrived at the part where its asking me to partition the 2nd hard
disk (sdb). I have not advanced through
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:43 AM, lee wrote:
> Wally Lepore writes:
>
>> In order to be sure that Debian installs successfully, I also have a
>> USB stick that has the required debian firmware files loaded in the
>> event the debian installer asks for it during set-up.
>
> I needed that once and f
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:42 AM, lee wrote:
> Wally Lepore writes:
>
>> I forgot to add this additional information. I am installing Debian
>> netinst file titled: debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso (32 bit)
>
> Isn't it better to go 64bit and to use the life installer CD? It might
> make more sense
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lee wrote:
> Wally Lepore writes:
>
> Thank you for putting up your questions in such a well made way!
I appreciate that. Takes me forever to reply to all posts because I
need to make sure my questions are 'somewhat' clear. :-)
>> An interesting side note: Bot
On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 17:24:16 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> > Nice planning. There is sufficient room on /. I'd do without the boot
> > partition but it does no harm.
>
> I must use the boot partition. I will be dual booting windows and
> debian
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2012 09:41:28 Brian wrote:
>> For the use you will put the OS to I'd stick to your plan.
>
> Sorry, Wally. I had obviously forgotten something you had said. My bad!
no problem :-) Thank you
wally
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Lisi wrote:
> Directories usually have subdirectories. Let's take /usr/local. There are
> three directories specified here. / , usr and mail. That is: root (not to
> be confused with root's home directory), the "root" of the directory "tree";
> usr which is a s
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Brian wrote:
> You will want to be sure you are partitioning the correct drive. Usually
> it is easy to distinguish between them because the drive containing
> Windows will probably have an NTFS filesystem on it. You should also
> double-check what the drive design
On 10/10/2012 01:33 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote:
Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ?
and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e.
/usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail).
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2
On 10/10/2012 07:33 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote:
>>> Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ?
>>> and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e.
>>> /usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail).
>
> On Wed, Oct
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2012 23:41:40 Wally Lepore wrote:
>> An interesting side note: Both identical drives are 'Enhanced IDE'
>> drives (EIDE). However for some reason during the debian set-up, the
>> installer identified them as SCSI drives and label
On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote:
>> Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ?
>> and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e.
>> /usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail).
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
> You can hav
Lisi writes:
> Wally, I really do think that you should just stop worrying and install. It
> doesn't matter if you make mistakes, you can just reinstall.
That's probably what he is trying to avoid. Having to re-install isn't
really fun; it's a waste of time and shouldn't be needed, so why
enc
Wally Lepore writes:
> space I have allocated to each partition? As you can see I have an 80
> gig drive (total) that I'm installing debian too. Should I leave some
> 'free space' in the event I want to add another directory in the
> future?
Sooner or later, you might add more disks and then you
Wally Lepore writes:
> I have 1 gig of DDR RAM. Thus your suggesting I make the swap 2 gigs?
> I do let my system hibernate. Also, if I set the swap to 2 gigs, then
> the Appendix section 'C3' says,
>
> On some 32-bit architectures (m68k and PowerPC), the maximum size of a
> swap partition is 2GB
Wally Lepore writes:
> In order to be sure that Debian installs successfully, I also have a
> USB stick that has the required debian firmware files loaded in the
> event the debian installer asks for it during set-up.
I needed that once and found I had to unpack these drivers on the
stick. With
Wally Lepore writes:
> I forgot to add this additional information. I am installing Debian
> netinst file titled: debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso (32 bit)
Isn't it better to go 64bit and to use the life installer CD? It might
make more sense to go 64bit when you do programming. And I've seen
Int
Wally Lepore writes:
Thank you for putting up your questions in such a well made way!
> An interesting side note: Both identical drives are 'Enhanced IDE'
> drives (EIDE). However for some reason during the debian set-up, the
> installer identified them as SCSI drives and labeled them as follows
On Wednesday 10 October 2012 09:41:28 Brian wrote:
> For the use you will put the OS to I'd stick to your plan.
Sorry, Wally. I had obviously forgotten something you had said. My bad!
Lisi
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Hi, Wally!
On Wednesday 10 October 2012 02:22:38 Wally Lepore wrote:
> Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ?
> and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e.
> /usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail).
Directories usually have subdirectories.
On Tue 09 Oct 2012 at 18:41:40 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
[Snip]
> I will also be utilizing this set-up for dual boot utilizing two
> separate hard disks:
> page 1:
> http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on-a-computer-with-2-hard-drives/
> page 2:
> http://w
On Tuesday 09 October 2012 23:41:40 Wally Lepore wrote:
> An interesting side note: Both identical drives are 'Enhanced IDE'
> drives (EIDE). However for some reason during the debian set-up, the
> installer identified them as SCSI drives and labeled them as follows
>
> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) -80.0 GB
On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> The sizes look sane.
>> 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap.
>> 15GB / plenty of space.
>> .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> The sizes look sane.
> 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap.
> 15GB / plenty of space.
> .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity
> with df -h as the drive can fill up wit
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> Wally,
> looks like an ok partitioning scheme. Having /home on its own partition
> means you can keep its contents even if you change the linux installed.
> Personally, I don't use a /boot partition; I just use / and /home.
Hi Wolf,
Ok thanks.
The sizes look sane.
2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap.
15GB / plenty of space.
.5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity
with df -h as the drive can fill up with old Linux images.
The rest for home files makes sense as wel
Wally,
looks like an ok partitioning scheme. Having /home on its own partition
means you can keep its contents even if you change the linux installed.
Personally, I don't use a /boot partition; I just use / and /home.
Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
wolfhal...@apache.org
On
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the netinst iso file and verified the file using
> MD5SUM and it passed.
I forgot to add this additional information. I am installing Debian
netinst file titled: debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso (32 bit)
> System specs:
>
>W
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