Hi, Ed: This looks much better to me. A couple of comments sill, however: Ed Barnes writes: > Janina and list. > I am learning more and more from this list as I write to it and read the > messages of others and I should add that I am thoroughally enjoying > participating. > Guess the fact that I am a bit of a computer nird might have something to do > with it in a sense because I spend hours and hours fooling around at > computer stuff outside of what school requires just because I enjoy it as a > hobby. > Nevertheless, yes Janina I did forget the ned for a /usr partition. > Regarding putting the swap partition on /dev/hda1, I found it a little odd > that you were commenting on this as I couldn't remember writing that in the > original message. > I actually didn't or didn't intend to write it that way but I've looked > at the message that you would have received late last night and that is what > you saw when you read the message so it makes some sense now. > I have a touchpad on my notebook which I've not yet disabled and sometimes > if my palm hits it as I type and I don't realize it my messages end up as a > bit of a jumble and things are miss-aligned. > The pointer that you use a / partition of 256 mb approx and that I could get > away with 400 mb or so is invaluable. > This drastically changes things, but it is change for the better. > After reading your note I am wondering if a partition scheme such as the > following would be more appropriate? Once again I'm planning on installing > the modified Red Hat 7.2 on a Pentium II 233 mhz w 64 mb of ram. Any and all > thoughts welcome folks. > /dev/hda is a 2 gb hd > /dev/hda1 > / partition 400 mb > /dev/hda2 > /usr partition 1 gb (I don't plan on installing anything from x) > /dev/hda3 > /var 600 mb (very limitted mail and web and dns server capability) > /dev/hdb is a 1.6 gb hard disk > /dev/hdb1 > swap partition of size 200 mb > /dev/hdb2 > /tmp 400 mb > /dev/hdb3 > /home remaining space on hard disk > Many thanks to all in advance. > Ed Barnes > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:03 PM > Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version > > > I don't know about the wisdom of putting swap in hda1. Sounds unusual to > me, put I don't know that there's actually anything wrong with that. I > just have never seen that. > > Also, it's not your /root -- but your / partition which is the root. 1.5 > gB is undoubtedly large--try 500 mB or even less. I get away with about > 256 mB these days. Essentially, make this bigger if it includes /var, and > less if /var is a separate partition, and less if /var will have > relatively little to do--no ftp, no web, only your mail, etc. > > Your note does not speak of /usr. That is very important, and will take at > least 1 gB if you install nothing from X, and about 3.5 gB if you install > everything in the RH 7.2 distribution. > > My advice is to let diskdruid figure out where to put things. It's good at > that. Just specify the sizes and mount points. The term "Mount points," by > the way, is linux speak for things like /, and /usr, and /home, etc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
