On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:26:41PM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I have a 14 gig drive I wanted to devote > entirely to Debian Linux or FreeBSD. > > I made the Deb boot floppies, booted up, > and got stymied at the Partition hard disk > step in `cfdisk'. > > It showed me the whole disk, which at the time > had FreeBSD 3.1 on it. > > I figured I needed partitions for > root = 100 Mb > swap = 512 Mb > /usr = rest of disk > > so.... I couldn't figure out how to size the > partition. Did I need to make a Linux Partition > first, then size that. And why does the Linux > Swap partition appear as a seperate entity in > cfdisk->type list? If you wanted to devote the whole disk to Debian, then I assume you want to delete any existing partitions first on that drive first. Then when you press 'n' to create a new partition, it defaults to creating a Linux partition and it asks you what size.
Swap uses a different type of partition, so after you create the swap partition you can set it's type to Linux swap (type 82). > Then decided to make a CD-image, but never finished. > > Then while scanning the documentation, > found something that said you could do a network > install and you only needed 2 floppies. But then > I thought I remembered reading on the mail list > that its not supported. I used two floppies and had the install grab the drivers and base tarballs off my DOS partitions--I don't know if you can get them over the net during the install instead, but I think someone else has suggested it. > plus in the install manual for Debian 2.2, it > says you probably will need 2-3 gigs for /var > so you can do an `apt' update in the future. > what's that all about?? Apt is > After all this, I'm still interested in installing > Debian Linux. I guess I just need to experiment more. > > hmmm.... I have partition magic 4.x, and it lets me > created a Linux extended partition - what's that? > Can I use that? > > running out of midnight oil > - greg strockbine > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
