Partitioning: speed & track position (was Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks)

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:14:08PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): > > Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher > > utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk > > ra

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:08:47PM -0800): > Advice I've heard (no emperical evidence myself) is that higher > utilization is best placed toward the physical midpoint of the disk > radius. This tends to equalize head movement in and out. Unless heads > park in either

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:22:47PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing l

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ian Thomas (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:42:29PM -0800): > > > hdb1 (this is already my freebsd swap partition) > > > hdb2 /boot (this will be a primary partition) > > > hdb3 (extended partition containing logical > slices) > > > hdb5 / > > > hdb6 /var > > > hdb7 /tmp > > > hdb8 /home > > >

Re: Setting Up Partitions:Solved,Thanks

2001-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
I finished installing the system. I got all the partitions working after having to use expert mode in fdisk. I then jumped back into the debian curses install and it went right on to the next step, no problems. That is a very robust installer. As of right now I am booting from floppy until