Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: bdi install

The utils I've seen for it so far, do it by cylindar, which is to say, one
partition equals N cylindars. You'll want to reserve two special purpose
partitions; One is for your, "/boot", partition, and should be number one
partition. It doesn't need to be more than one cylindar in size, as all it
holds is your boot up stuff, and you want it to be _first_, so that it'll be
master boot record reachable. The second will be your swap partition, and is
not normally user accessable, but is for system memory between boots, memory to
file system and back again chores, and etc., etc. What's a good size for a
swap partition, is an endless discussion. Make it as big as you're comfortable
with.

Make your remaining partitions as large/small as suitss. If you make any of
these, you'll want the biggest to be:

/bin, /home, /lib, /opt, /root, /sbin, /shlib, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/src,
/usr/lib, and /var.

You can get away with making just one big super-partition called, "/", however
that is usually reserved for finding out just how big a final system you want
to make, using the, "du", command to size the various directories once you've
set things up. Once you know about how much the various directories and
packages take up space-wise, you can assign apx sizes to a partition list, and
go from there, with a final fresh install, creating the partitions as needed.

Bill

On Sat May 11 12:38:41 2002, armartinus, <armartin@...> wrote:

>Thanks Bill for responding.
>i thought that the bdi would write itself over windows and not ask me
>to partition the drive manually which is something that i do not know
>yet.
>
>Richard.
>--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Bill Vance <ccq@x> wrote:
>> Yo Richard;
>>
>> It's telling you that you have to install Linux first, so that
>there will be a
>> root file system, "/", to install the bdi in. _Or_, it could also
>be telling
>> you that if you've spread your file system around a bunch of
>machines, and that
>> it needs you to tell it where to find the main system box's, "/",
>directory -
>> partition, so that it can find all it's paths properly.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Sat May 11 09:21:27 2002, armartinus, <armartin@t...> wrote:
>>
>> >i get this message from the bdi cd .
>> >[ you must assign a root (/) partition to a linux native partion
>> >(ext2) for the install to proceed) I am new to this thing so
>please
>> >be kind . and any thoughts of things to come in the install.i've
>> >went through the manual but did not see anything regarding this
>and
>> >also did a search to see if anyone else on this site had this thing
>> >before.i have a dedicated HD for this install.
>> >
>> >thank you for your help.
>> >
>> >Richard
>>
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