On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Sameer Shinde wrote:
Hi All,
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I have kept around 4GB of my disk space, to install linux on my m/cthe total disk space I assign in the following way.
/boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we can assign to /boot? } swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB )
$ { Do I need to create any other partion for the installation & for improving the performance, as I found the system is quite slow in the 1st installation? }
Instead of having a single / partition, it would be better if you have different partitions for /usr, /var, & /home. So, you can use your 3.7 GB space for /, /usr, /var, and /home. You should allot maximum space for /usr, as most of your software installation will be on that partition.
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o.k... On the very 1st day, the installation goes fine ( with little difficulties) but there was still some errors such as after shuting down the system it was giving an error -
- general protection fault : fooo
cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>] [snip] . . . . . . . . . . [snip]
Nothing to worry about this. The kernel is trying to shut off your computer, but your BIOS doesn't seem to support auto-shut. You can avoid this, by making a small change in your /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file. But all that later, first lets get your installation in place.
- dos partitions were not able to mount
[ I tryed ' mount ' command along with editing /etc/fstab file but it didn't work, leaving the message vfat partitions can not be mounted ] $ { why it was not mounting the partitioning ? }
Give the complete error output you get.
- I was not getting a proper screen resolution.
Use Xconfigurator.
HTH, Rajen.
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