--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I > > selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is > > 3000MB in size? > This now depends on the swap partition, boot > partitions and other partitions that are on your > system. By default the swap partition size is > double > the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your > swap > partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will > be > your swap partition size, and so on > > 3000MB > -1080MB > --------- > 1920 MB swap ? > - 1024 MB > --------- > 896 MB > - 100 MB /boot partition ? > --------- > 796 MB ??? point taken...the machine is rather light: 48MB of EDO RAM, 200mhz pentium classic and a 3GB hard disk (to be used only as a firewall and wireless bridge) my fdisk for the target disk (before) starting the installation was sda1 / 2920MB (bootable) ext3 sda2 swap ~80MB being an old Solaris geek I still stay close to the 2 times RAM rule of thumb for swap. I left his alone and all I did was under druiddisk I set the target mountpoint for sda1. I had already run mkswap on the swap partition. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
