Re: basic redhat 9 partitioning question Lucas Young <lucas_at_@_ihatespam.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm setting up a new install of rh9 to act as a server on a primarily winxp
> network (of 7 machines).
> It's a dual P3 500 with about 768MB ram
> The primary disk will be 20gb with two other disks - 30gb and 20gb There are
> two users and we do a lot of graphics/web/video work.
> I plan to use the defaults for the linux install paths like / and /root and
There should be no mountpoint /root, $HOME of UID 0 should be on
/.
> so on, 2*RAM for /swap etc. I want to create a mount point like /clients for
> all our client data on one of the other drives, and maybe put /home on
> another drive as well, how do I do that? Can I just use Disk Druid during
> install, e.g. create a new partition called /clients and select the drive I
> want it on?
Yep, you can set this while installing. However RH 9 updates will
fade out soon (AFAIK 04/2004), you'd better take a look at
fedora, RH ES 3.0 or another distro.
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