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From: Tadas Osmolskis
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00

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I have a 486DX-33 with 16 MB RAM, and a 425mb hard drive to devote to Linux. 
How should I partition it? I want a character-based development system with 
dial-up networking. I'd also like to install X just to see what that's all 
about. 

So -- how big a swap partition? One swap partition or several? How many 
partitions for Linux itself? How big a root, and where do I mount the 
other(s)? /usr? /usr/bin? /dev/nul?

Any gratuitous advice/ opinionated argument highly welcome.

PS -- this is a home system, so it isn't critical. I was planning to reinstall 
Slackware, but any fans of Debian, Bogus, or MCC are welcome to convince me as 
well.

Tadas Osmolskis

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Date: 1995/05/17
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