Originally posted by robmiller
I'm going to throw myself in at the deep end and go with a Gentoo system.
I'm on a Barton 2500+ with a gig of RAM
I've chosen the "universal" boot CD
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Hmmm, I better brace myself for all the questions to come
I could imagine I used to get swamped with peeps on MSN. But I've solved it, I don't go on as often as I used toOriginally posted by MiggyMan
Pfftt, try working tech support
Mind you, havinf FishFluff on msn is just as bad
Yup 512MB for swap should be enough I use a 15MB /boot (10MB on my server) and I have 4 or 5 kernels in there. I really don't see any reason to use any more than that.Originally posted by burns
One of the Gentoo installers reporting back. I'm sorting out the partitions atm, but it doesn't really explain how to decide what sizes they should be...
I'm sticking with 32mb for the boot, sounds sensible, but what about the swap partition? They say to just make it 512MB, but don't say why. It's a 20Gb disk in a system with 256MB RAM. Any ideas?
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
Yup 512MB for swap should be enough I use a 15MB /boot (10MB on my server) and I have 4 or 5 kernels in there. I really don't see any reason to use any more than that.
It used to be normal (and might still be) that you had the swap partition twice as big as your RAM. However, having more and more RAM nowadays, I have never bothered with a swap partition larger than 512MB - so just make it that.Originally posted by burns
I'm sticking with 32mb for the boot, sounds sensible, but what about the swap partition? They say to just make it 512MB, but don't say why. It's a 20Gb disk in a system with 256MB RAM. Any ideas?
Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
I can't remember whether it was linux.org or gentoo.org, but I read earlier today that the swap partition should be equal to twice the physical memory.
What about making a /home partition. That was problem one of the best ideas for gentoo installs I came across. As you will probably find you want to do the install again, or for any backup purposes, having all the files in your /home on a seperate partition means they don't have to be deleted when you reinstall the os.Originally posted by robmiller
Right, I'm going in, wish me luck
I've got 1gb of RAM, and so was planning on going
32mb Boot
256mb swap
rest of the disk as /root
Sound ok?
Originally posted by robmiller
Right, I'm going in, wish me luck
I've got 1gb of RAM, and so was planning on going
32mb Boot
256mb swap
rest of the disk as /root
Sound ok?