Re: Help with Linux.

[Subbiah Muthukalayappan <subbiahm@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all you people for your inputs. I tried what ravi shanker had
asked me to and things seems to work fine. It is true (as sundeep holani
had mentioned) that a lot of files have not been installed due to lack
of disk space. I really think I need to do a re-install as most of the
packages complain about missing files, But my first experience has given
me more confidence now. 

I have another query: Is there any disadvantage in just having one
partition (other than for swap) with / as  mounting point or should we
have seperate partitions for /usr, / , /home etc. seperately (as
recommended) ?

Thanks and Regards
Subbiah


Sundeep Holani wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed
> > to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this
> > problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and
> > stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install
> > this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO
> > bootloader now?
> 
> While the solution suggested by S Ravi Shankar will work perfectly, I
> believe, your previous linux installation was aborted midway and so there
> will definitely be some files missing and hence lots of programs that you
> might try will give dependency errors. So I suggest that you reinstall after
> setting up your hard disk. If you've done it once you probably will find it
> very easy to partition your disks using DiskDruid . I suggest that you place
> the /usr partition on disk2. Now. since 154+125 mb isnt much disk space
> still, and most of what you'll install will go to the /usr of disk 2 , you
> still have to do a minimal installation and only keep what you cant live
> without.Alternatively if you'd prefer 15 more MB of space for /usr , make a
> 10MB /boot and a /usr on the rest of the space of disk 1 , and a  /
> partition on disk2.
> 
> Regards,
> Sundeep.
> 
> BTW i am curious to know where you got a 125mb HDD from.... we now get
> floppies of that size :-)
> 
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