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| Thread ID: 126670 | 2012-09-11 02:44:00 | Linux Questions | Nick G (16709) | Press F1 |
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| 1300461 | 2012-09-24 02:58:00 | Was actually burning one just as this post appeared :) Will do, thanks. Once I get those off I'll be making a /home directory lol. :D Good plan. Root directory only needs to be 25 gig, less if you're squeezed for space, probably 10 gigs minimum for a modern distro. Swap used to be twice RAM but these days of cheap memory, not so much. On a desktop (unless you're using it to run a battery of thin clients) you'll rarely use more than 2 gigs so generally if your Ram is 2 gb or more your swap should be same size as Ram as that allows the system to write the whole ram to swap during hibernation. help.ubuntu.com /home the rest of the drive space Cheers Yo |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300462 | 2012-09-24 06:00:00 | Ok, got the docs off my mint partition.' Am setting up now to reinstall, just want to check I have this right. I should convert my / partition to a /home and a /root, I get that. Just checking here, all programs I install goon the /home, not the /root? So the /root is just for the linux os itself? Cheers |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300463 | 2012-09-24 06:52:00 | Ok, got the docs off my mint partition . ' Am setting up now to reinstall, just want to check I have this right . I should convert my / partition to a /home and a /root, I get that . Just checking here, all programs I install goon the /home, not the /root? So the /root is just for the linux os itself? Cheers OK, sda1 should be your windows partition, you should have probably an extended partition though you don't need it, sda1 should be showing as ntfs and your swap should show as "swap" . That will either be sda2 or sda5 if have used an extended partition . Your old root partition either sda3 or sda6 will show as EXT3 or 4 . Delete that partition so you have sda1 - NTFS . Sda2(?) - Swap or sda2 extended and blank space or delete the extended partition . Create a new primary partition in the blank space . Make it around 20 or so gigs and EXT 4 . Mount point for this partition will be / Format the rest of the blank space as EXT 4 and mount this as /home Programmes are installed in one of two directories, either /usr or /opt . The Linux standard is: All the important stuff, in other words the Users content, goes in /home all the software and configuration files go in / . The user's personal settings for each application are kept in hidden files in the /home/(whatever the username is) which is created every time you add a user . Those files are prefixed with a " . ", if you go "Show Hidden Files" you'll see a lot of files pop up in your home directory with dots in front . The directory labelled /root is the administrators home directory which doesn't get used much, if at all . |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300464 | 2012-09-24 07:59:00 | Ok, I formatted it, now have 228gb of space for linux. I'm not going to worry about a /root partition, I'll just chuck /root on my /. But I will make a /home partition. So, space wise, how best to allocate my 228gb? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300465 | 2012-09-24 09:30:00 | Just to give you an idea of what is used on a new-ish install: /dev/sda2 3.4G / /dev/sda1 31M /boot This is a week old install of debian stable. swap is not listed (on this drive 4GB) In your case, I would suggest: / 10-15 GB swap 2GB /home ... the rest |
Myth (110) | ||
| 1300466 | 2012-09-24 09:35:00 | Just to give you an idea of what is used on a new-ish install: /dev/sda2 3.4G / /dev/sda1 31M /boot This is a week old install of debian stable. swap is not listed (on this drive 4GB) In your case, I would suggest: / 10-15 GB swap 2GB /home ... the rest Cheers, will do. I'll probably give my / 20gb, a nice round number lol. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300467 | 2012-09-24 09:53:00 | Ok, so I set up my partitions, am installing now. I take it a custom install option is what I want to dual boot? I'm trying opensuse this time. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300468 | 2012-09-24 12:24:00 | Ok, so I set up my partitions, am installing now. I take it a custom install option is what I want to dual boot? I'm trying opensuse this time. With OpenSUSE the defaults are pretty much bang on, just use the suggestion, it figures the windows partition and does all the rest and installs grub, you can just let it do it's thing. However, custom install works as well if you want to be hands on. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300469 | 2012-09-25 00:58:00 | Right, I've installed it, all works fine. Cheers guys sent from OpenSUSE |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300470 | 2012-09-25 01:47:00 | Just be aware that openSUSE by default does not come preloaded with all the video codecs that have licensing issues: MP3, MP4, AVI, WMV, etc . Also flash is not installed by default for the same reason . Not sure why this is, probably because SUSE's corporate parent, Novell, want to keep their arses covered against legal attacks . The easiest way is to install VLC media player, that will cover the multimedia stuff . However VLC is not in the default repositories, it's in what is called a Community repository . You'll have to add those in YAST . Just go to YAST > Software > Software repositories . The default repos will come up in the Configured Software Repositories window, click "Add" and in the "Media Type" window that opens, click "Community Repositories" click next and sit back and let it do it's thing . There will be a number of license things you'll have to agree to as it updates the software list, that cover those proprietary licenses . (You only have to do this once) Once it's all finished, you'll have a huge list of software available including proprietary stuff . If you have a big enough data cap there are even a whole pile of high end games . Graphics drivers are a must if you want to be able to use all the effects in Gnome or KDE desktops, if you're lucky your laptop has an Intel GPU in which case all the drivers are installed . ATI and Nvidia however, need to be installed . Nvidia drivers are a particular pain in the butt, hence Linus Torvalds "F**k you, Nvidia" comment at a conference a few months back . However if you like flashy effects on your desktop then it's probably worth the effort . if not, then the default Nouveau drivers will be perfectly adequate . Flash will have to be installed as well . Just go to YAST > software management > Search Tab . Type in: "Flash" then click "Search" check the box next to "Adobe Flash Player", go back the Search box tye in "VLC", check the box next to vlc in the search results window . Then simply go "accept" a window will popup and say something like "These dependencies need to be installed" click OK and it will download and install everything automagically . Cheers Yo |
Yorick (8120) | ||
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