From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: A few problems Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:16:51 GMT
chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne) writes:
>1. When partitioning the hard disk I gather that you should make a 'few'
> partitions for Linux. A root, swap and user I recall. How big should
> these be? Is a swap file as good as a swap partition? Why have a 'user'
> partition?
I have a "/" partition (51MB), a "/disk2" partition (51MB), and a 16 MB
swap partition...here's why:
the '/' partition has the real o/s on it. My intent is to put all the
'normal' stuff in the basic distribution there (pick one, SLS, mcc-interim,
there are lots more).
the '/disk2' partition has a number of subdirectories that are linked
to from '/'...I use the following:
/usr/src ---> /disk2/src
/usr/local --> /disk2/local
/home ---> /disk2/home
(the intent is to be able to nuke the '/' tree and reinstall the o/s
there, add a few links back, and I'm up again).
What I'd REALLY like to do is switch the drives and use the 120MB
for DOS, and split the 200MB into a mess 'o linux partitions, so that
I could have one '/' partition with one setup, and one with another,
and switch between them just by using a different boot disk and kernel.
>2. When I tried the root/boot floppies on a machine at work (Paradise VGA)
> I see 2 odd effects:
> i) The 'choose VGA mode' screen bombs out, so I have to 'press space
> to continue'. Any ideas?
> ii) The cursor disappears completely. Is there a setterm command to turn
> it on?
press space to continue.
get it booted at 80x25 console mode.
recompile your kernel to not ask the question...then run 'X' to get
the fonts and window(s) you want.
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---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
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