Re: Installation recommendation

From: B. L. Jilek (bljilek_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/05/04

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    Hi Ritesh!

    On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

    > Hi,
    > I've just purchased a laptop and will install debian onto it. I just
    > wanted your generous suggestions regarding installation.
    >
    > I am planning to use the following partition structure:
    >
    > /boot -- 150mb
    > /home -- 10GB
    > /usr -- 15GB
    > /usr/local -- 5GB
    >
    > I don't think having /tmp, /var etc on a laptop would be much
    > beneficial. Also since Debian already has most softwares packaged
    > /usr/local doesn't need be much big. And since I've a target to become a
    > DD soon, whatever I install into /usr/local will some time soon go into
    > /usr .
    >
    > I'll be using Maildir format for emails. So no /var tension. /home will
    > do that.
    >
    > Is there anything else I should be concerned for installation on a
    > laptop ? Any better suggestion ?

    If your /var dir is not big enough you will have problems with
    apt-get not having enough room to put downloaded packages. If your
    /tmp dir is not big enough you'll have problems downloading large
    files such as ISO's. The /tmp dir is where it is stored until the
    download finishes and it is written to where you wanted it put.

    You said nothing about your / partition. This is where /tmp and /var
    will be if you don't make them separate. 

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