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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: A few problems
- References: <722054059snx@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:16:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.201651.727@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne) writes:
- >1. When partitioning the hard disk I gather that you should make a 'few'
- > partitions for Linux. A root, swap and user I recall. How big should
- > these be? Is a swap file as good as a swap partition? Why have a 'user'
- > partition?
-
- I have a "/" partition (51MB), a "/disk2" partition (51MB), and a 16 MB
- swap partition...here's why:
-
- the '/' partition has the real o/s on it. My intent is to put all the
- 'normal' stuff in the basic distribution there (pick one, SLS, mcc-interim,
- there are lots more).
-
- the '/disk2' partition has a number of subdirectories that are linked
- to from '/'...I use the following:
-
- /usr/src ---> /disk2/src
- /usr/local --> /disk2/local
- /home ---> /disk2/home
-
- (the intent is to be able to nuke the '/' tree and reinstall the o/s
- there, add a few links back, and I'm up again).
-
- What I'd REALLY like to do is switch the drives and use the 120MB
- for DOS, and split the 200MB into a mess 'o linux partitions, so that
- I could have one '/' partition with one setup, and one with another,
- and switch between them just by using a different boot disk and kernel.
-
-
- >2. When I tried the root/boot floppies on a machine at work (Paradise VGA)
- > I see 2 odd effects:
- > i) The 'choose VGA mode' screen bombs out, so I have to 'press space
- > to continue'. Any ideas?
- > ii) The cursor disappears completely. Is there a setterm command to turn
- > it on?
-
- press space to continue.
- get it booted at 80x25 console mode.
- recompile your kernel to not ask the question...then run 'X' to get
- the fonts and window(s) you want.
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- I just upgraded to Quicken-for-Windows v2.0 and it's so darn great I'll
- never get rid of DOS...anybody got a Quicken-for-X11R5 ???
-