Your partitionsForum: HD Install Topic: Your partitions started by: jhsu Posted by jhsu on May 10 2007,18:30
I get the feeling there's something important about partitions that I'm missing, but I don't know what it is. I'd like to see what the partitions are on your computers and what you have in each one. Seeing a variety of examples will help me understand things better. Please go into command line, go to cfdisk, and copy-and-paste your partions and post them in your reply. And note what you have in hda1, hda2, etc. Posted by lucky13 on May 10 2007,21:38
Whose?
Just do "sudo fdisk -l" -- faster and easier. If you don't know what you're looking for, how will anyone else? It's pretty straightforward with frugal -- three partitions. You need a swap partition, one for the DSL image, and another for your /home, /opt, and backup. Posted by jhsu on May 11 2007,03:17
I've been having trouble with installing DSL to my hard drive. I need to make sure that I'm partitioning properly, so I need to see live examples of how it's done.
Posted by lucky13 on May 11 2007,08:28
Live examples? In person, video?This computer isn't frugal, but my normal rule of thumb is 2x RAM for swap, 55MB for DSL image, and however much I can spare for /home + /opt + backup. What are you doing and what problem are you having? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 11 2007,13:16
Just a side note: For frugals, I think the persistent opt cheatcode is not recommended in relatively newer versions of DSL (use .uci's instead)
Posted by curaga on May 11 2007,15:51
OK. My main comp (laptop) is like this:hda1 - 2 gb - fat32 - win2000 hda2 - 256 mb - swap hda3 - 5 gb - ext3 - my distro hda4 - the rest, about 13,5 gb - fat32 - music, tv recordings and movies Posted by jhsu on May 11 2007,16:38
Thanks for the example, curaga. So if all your data (multimedia, photos, documents, etc.) is on hda4, does that mean all the configuration settings, boot-up programs, etc. are on hda3? Why do you have 5gb when DSL only occupies about 1% of it? What takes up the other 99%? Is this a frugal install? If so, how do you upgrade when a new version of DSL is released? Posted by curaga on May 11 2007,17:06
This isn't DSL, it's my distro. I call it Aero System (named it before Vista named its UI). It currently takes ~1 gb, but I like to keep the kernel source there, that is ~400mb. I keep all my Linux data on the Linux partition, and only the data I want to use from both OS's on hda4.DSL hd install takes about 200 mb.. Maybe that wasn't a good example since it's not DSL. Here's my DSL comp (old desktop =) ): hda1 - ~890 mb - ext2 - DSL hd install hda2 - 128 mb - swap Posted by jhsu on May 11 2007,18:59
You're not fooling that it's an old desktop. That old computer with barely a 1GB hard drive must have been made around 1996-1997. (Thanks to the world of bloatware, computers aren't any faster today than they were back then.) So you have hda1 for your DSL installation and 128MB for a swap drive. How do you upgrade DSL when a new version comes out? I thought the frugal install requires the booting portion and the stored data to be on different partitions. Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 12 2007,02:31
He's not using a frugal...
Posted by curaga on May 12 2007,08:41
Frugal can have booting & KNOPPIX on the same partition. But exactly, I am using a Hd-install, not frugal. And since I've customized it so far from being DSL, I would have no use in upgrading. It already has everything I want, and an upgrade would need me making all those things again. No thanks ;)And my modified DSL beats all my friends' XP comps with over 3Ghz horsepower in booting & using! I like that fact.. Even though this comp was made in -96 (I think..).. Upgrading frugal is easy, just replace the KNOPPIX file with the newer DSL's KNOPPIX. That's it, all your settings & added programs stay with you.. Posted by mikshaw on May 12 2007,13:48
hda1 = Slackware, on 12gb Reiser file system hda3 = Persistent home for DSL and a mostly unused Suse system, on 25gb Reiser file system hda4= multiple frugal DSL versions on 788mb ext2 file system Upgrading is simple. Boot "toram" and overwrite the KNOPPIX file. In my case, though, I tend to keep two or more KNOPPIX vrsions installed together so if I have problems with a new release I can easily reboot into the previous version. This also allows me to upgrade one DSL system from within another (provided I'm using the "frugal" boot option). Posted by curaga on May 12 2007,13:52
Hey mik, DSL doesn't support reiser. You added something to use reiser on your home partition?
Posted by mikshaw on May 12 2007,14:05
DSL does support reiser, but not as the root file system. I guess the module must be loading at some later point. I've been mounting this same partition in DSL since 0.7.
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