Re: [Thinkpad] 600x and Linux

Adam:

This is correct, you / (root) should be larger than 250 MB in order to
store all of the running files required for Red Hat. I am making the
assumption that you are not partitioning for /bin, /usr or any other
subdirectory other than /var. I suggest making the / (root) partition
about 500 MB if you can 'afford' this amount of space. I also recommend
making the /var partition of at least the same size. I also suggest
setting up a swap partition of at least 250MB (this is equivelent to the
swap file in Windows).

In Disk Druid the / partition should be the first partition you set up.
I suggest setting it up on /dev/hda1.

Hope this helps.

Adam wrote:

>Saturday, October 25, 2003, 10:08:50 PM, you wrote:
>
>
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>>Red Hat comes with a graphical hard drive partitioning software called
>>Disk Druid, which is recommended by other Thinkpad users and the Red Hat
>>community at large for new Linux users. As an experienced user, I used
>>Disk Druid to set up the hard drive on my A22p and 600E so that the
>>drive could be swapped between both machines without problems.
>>
>>
>
>I thought I set things up there in Mr. Disk Druid. There are some
>warnings that don't seem clear to me.
>
>/-------------------------------
>Partitioning Warnings
>
>Your root partition is less than 250 megabytes, which is usually too
>small to install Red Hat Linux.
>
>Your /var partition is less than 384 megabytes which is lower than
>recommended for a normal Red Hat Linux install.
>
>\--------------------------------
>
>The thing of that is that I don't recall making any root partition.
>
>
>

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Received on Sun Oct 26 22:17:42 2003