Linux installation on an indiviudal drive..

[PravusMentis]

If I install linux on my 2nd HD which is aprox 30 Gigs do I still need to worry about all this W2k MBR editing stuff, and could anyone tell me a good size for each area (Root, Home, var etc etc))

[MandK_10]

If you do not set up LILO and use a boot disk to start linux, you will not have to worry at all about the MBR. Some Distros use other boot loaders and I am not sure how they work. I am only familiar with LILO. There is probably other good alternatives but this is how I personally would do it.

As far as the partitioning goes, there are as many different setups as people on this BBS. I would set up 1Gig for /, 5Gig for /usr, 500Meg for /Var, 256Meg for swap, and the rest for /home. Just my opinion.

Mike

[spookyboo]

Don't waste a partition on swap! Use a swap file for cryin' out loud.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/.swap bs=1024 count=<how many kb you want>
mkswap -v1 /.swap
swapon /.swap
Now edit /etc/fstab and put /.swap for your swap file I think it's like
/.swap swap swap none 0 0
Sumpin like dat, hell I dont know cus I'm friggin stuck in winblows cause my Linux friendly ISP is down aaaaarg!

[ 31 July 2001: Message edited by: spookyboo ]