Partition help
Terry Polzin
fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Mon Jan 31 13:53:56 UTC 2005
On Sunday 30 January 2005 21:42, Leo Donahue wrote:
> I need help installing Fedora Core 3 on my laptop.
>
> My goal is to learn Linux enough to stop using windows.
>
> I have win2k on my laptop. PIII ~900MHz. 512MB ram. 20GB hard drive.
> Currently win2k only has 10001MB of my hard drive. Under windows, there is
> another primary partition that is unformatted.
>
Delete it. (the other primary unformatted partition that is)
You want to make your own boot, swap and root partitions in its place in
unpartitioned space.
> I inserted the FC3 cd and rebooted. I got to the point where the Anaconda
> wizard tries to partion the remaining portion of my hard drive for me. I
> get an error that says something about not being a primary partition or
> something. So I use Disk Druid to setup the partitions like the Book I'm
> using suggests.
>
> I'm reading the text by Sobell, "Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux".
>
> The text suggests the following for partions:
>
> /boot 100 megabytes
> / 500 megabytes
> (swap) two times the amount of ram
> /home As large as necessary, depends upon # of users
> /tmp Minimum 100 megabytes
> /usr Minimum 1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install
> /var Minimum 500 Megabytes
>
> Well you've probably already guessed that the / account is too small, I get
> an uncaught exception error that says I should have had 2515MB of space for
> the root partition. There are three choices, if I remember correctly and I
> chose "OK", which froze the laptop and I hard to do a hard boot to restart
> the laptop.
>
> I am only installing the default packages to learn what is there before I
> do a custom install.
>
> Can someone recommend a better partion schema for an approximate 10 GB hard
> drive?
>
> I would appreciate the list's help.
>
> Thanks.
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