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Tadas Osmolskis (tadas@paltech.com) wrote:
: 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?

I use 2 partitions: root + swap.  The swap is 16Mb and the root is
the rest.  (The swap is at the end of the hard drive.)

Since I have a lot of files in the users' directories, I mount my
second drive off of /home as: /home/diskD    It is more common
to mount the second drive (if you have one) off of /mnt.  

: 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.

I use Slackware and like it.  The others may be better.


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