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Thread ID: 15163	2002-01-30 10:53:00	What size partitions are needed for RH?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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33582	2002-01-30 10:53:00	Howdy, I have botched up my re-reinstallation of Red Hat. Yes I've installed it 3 times. The first didn't go so well because I messed up my MBR. Second time was so I could use more Hard Drive space for it. And my last time was to partition it differently which I did but now I am getting error messages galore. So maybe I didn't give a specific partition enough Hard Drive Space. I've allocated 16GB of free space for Red Hat. I want to make or if I should make partitions for /boot, swap, /, /usr, /var and /home or should I just let it automatically do it which was the only installation I know that worked without any errors. Which partition would need the most space? Which partition would need the least? /boot and swap were automatically created. /, /usr, /var and home were each given an equal amout of around 3GB. However this way I think wasn't good. Also should I destroy the partitions using XPs disk manager or from the RH CD?	Guest (0)
33583	2002-01-30 11:56:00	You are better off destroying the partitions with RH. /Boot should be under 32mb. /Swap should be around 350 and you can assign /Root the rest although you can assign /home /usr & /var. If you assigned them 3gb each it should have been sufficient. /var is in a fashion the equivalent of the C:\Windows\Temp directory.	Guest (0)
33584	2002-01-31 04:29:00	You have got oodles of disk. Leave the Linux area on the disk unallocated. If you are still learning, RedHat will partition it up and it will work. I would bet that the 'error messages galore' are caused by your truning the computer off without shutting Linux down properly. It DOES NOT LIKE IT. A lot of the speed of linux comes from keeping as lot of information oin memory, and it writes to disk in its spare time. It has to be shut down so that it can make sure that all the information is written out. If it is not, you will get errors. The simplest way to shut down (apart from 'halt', 'reboot', etc which normally need root privilege), is the old Ctrl/Alt/Del. Watch the screen, (you will see just what is involved in shutting down) and when it says 'Wait for reboot', either turn it off or allow the reboot to LILO.	Guest (0)
33585	2002-01-31 08:27:00	It wasn't a partition problem. Since my previous installation which was working fine (well I've done another 6 installations now) but my second installation was working fine. Since then I didn't boot into linux much but I've replaced a 48x CD ROM with a 52x CD ROM which Linux recognises. Also I had enabled the LPT port which I didn't have enabled before because I didn't need to use it. I have an Iomega Zip 100 drive to it which doesn't get detected but I have the drivers for it, but didn't install it because of the problem I encounter. The only other differences was I added another user. Before everything I did was on root but now I su for it. But instead of booting into RH to see if it finds these devices I reinstalled it by deleting previous partitions and automatically getting it to partition it. Installation goes fine no problems there. It's when I am in the command centre altering the lilo.conf file and saving that sometimes it encounters a signal 11 error message. When that happens I am unable to get into a terminal (it would pop up then go away). Problems could be the new CD ROM which could affect my Power Supply which I think is only 230W which I believe isn't powerful enough in my case. The LPT port or just having the Iomega drive connected without the drivers on it. LPT port in the bios is set ECP/EPP. Maybe the added User could be the problem. I've disabled LPT and only have root on the system and I couldn't recreate the problem. But that doesn't mean it's gone. System Specs if useful P3 1GHz x 2 (SMP) 1GB SDRAM (4 x 256MB) Ricoh CDRW Pioneer DVD Samsung CDROM GeForce2 MX 400 SB Live 2x40GB drives And as you can see I've got a lot of devices that demand a lot power from my power supply and I am not sure if that's the case but I've got a new power supply on the list as I want to add more devices later on. I had to use a splitter on one of the connections.	Guest (0)
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