Megahertz wrote:1. It's hard for me to understand 12 GB for /home -- this sounds like a personal-use machine.
I am trying to install Fedora Core 2, I have tested
all the Cd's to make sure they have passed. And they
did. I am running, 366MHz Intel Celeron processor, 4MB
ATI Rage IIC, 64MB SDRAM, 20gig hard drive space and
yes I'm trying to get the distro just to install and
then install a lightweight windows manager (eg.
fluxbox).
And you are installing in text mode, aren't you?
This is the problem. I partition like this.
/ = fill max.
/boot = 100MB
<swap> = 190MB
With 20 GB, I'd recommend allowing more for swap. It's going to be pretty slow if it needs that swap, but it won't crash on you.
There's a possibility that you simply ran out of memory during the install. That's much more likely if you were installing in graphical mode.
Right now I got out my
old win98 CD and had to install it (BLEH!) and now I'm
running win98, though I installed fedora core 2, just
the minimum. Worked fine because it only used CD 1.
So you actually got Fedora installed on a minimum install?
What sort of Internet connection do you have? How fast is it, and do you need to use a modem attached to the computer? Can you borrow an Ethernet connection?
You might find it easier to get the minimal install, and then let yum handle the dependencies for the programs you want.
It would also be possible to try to negotiate the dependency maze yourself, and use rpm to install the packages from the other CD. This is not for the faint-hearted: there is a reason for the phrase "dependency hell"!
If you're worried about your CDs or your drive, you could decide to partition your drive further: I'd consider 12 GB for /home, and the rest for swap, /boot, and /. What I'd do is format the 12 GB in Win98, put the four ISO images there, md5sum them, boot with linux text askmethod and tell the installer to load from those images. Let it put /home on the / partition temporarily: once you've got everything loaded, mkfs.ext3 the 12 GB, move anything from the existing /home you need, edit /etc/fstab, and mount the new /home partition.
Hope this gives you something to think about,
James.
2. On my FC2, /usr/share is about 3 GB. All the rest of /usr is about 3 GB.
In his situation, I would carve out a /boot partition of about 75-100 MB, a swap partition of about 512 MB, and throw / into the rest. The only good reason to put a /boot as a separate partition at the very first of the disk is to avoid the infamous 1024 cylinder problem, but that may not matter here. When you're a little tight on disk space, it's better to keep as much in one big partition as possible, excepting only /boot and swap.
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