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From: Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If your disk has more than 1024 cylinders, and the / partition will
extend beyond cylinder 1023, you will need to use a slightly different
setup:
Partition Size
/b
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:08:46PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Nelson Little wrote:
> It's going to be difficult to partition this system, because 6.1 takes up
> around 1.1 GB for a full install. You might pare it down to around 900 if
> you know what to avoid installing,
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Nelson Little wrote:
> 1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should partition it
It's going to be difficult to partition this system, because 6.1 takes up
around 1.1 GB for a full install. You might pare it down to around 900 if
you know what to avoid installin
Hi
This mail is to maybe make a decision easier for you to make
I would go along in total with Rick.
I originally used one large partition/and a swap , while this
will not hurt anyone especially the casual user, I quickly learnt the value
of having a separate /home partition
Maybe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> As I wait for my rh6.1 cd to arrive in the mail I have a few questions
> about the installation. I have decided to use my second IDE drive
> which is 1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should
> partition it up. Do I just stick everything into one partit
> During the installation you get to partition the drive. The program Disk
> Druid does this and you tell it which mount points are assigned to which
> partitions (eg. partition 1 (hdb1) /, partition 2 (hdb2) /usr, etc.). If
> your just beginning, I found it easier to just throw everything on one
. Basically, if
you're just starting, use one partition and just mount /.
-Original Message-
From: Nelson Little [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 8:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Some basic installation questions
Hi,
As I wait for my rh6.1
Hi,
As I wait for my rh6.1 cd to arrive in the mail I have a few questions
about the installation. I have decided to use my second IDE drive which is
1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should partition it
up. Do I just stick everything into one partition and have a separate one
