On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:42:41 -0700, rolf.kamp@verizon.net wrote:

> Just installed Red Hat Linux 9 on a newly installed 80GB hard drive.
> This drive is the 2nd drive in the system. The 1st drive contains Windows XP.
> I setup a 500MB /swap, 1MB /boot and the remainder of the 80GB to root.

I hope the 1MB /boot, mentioned above, is a mis-type. 1MB would hardly
hold a kernel, yet alone grub, and an initrd, and the rest of what goes in
/boot. I just checked my smallest ./boot, and with two alternate kernels,
it is 11.7MB. A boot partition an a drive that size should be at least
20MB, for breathing room. If you want to try other distros in the future,
50-100MB isn't out of line.

Having a / that is 79GB is downright silly. Give 6GB to /, maybe 20GB to
/home, and leave the rest unused for the present. Later, you can make
partitions for storing downloads, backing up, extra distros, if you want
to see what the other guys are doing.

If you have one big / that eats up your whole disk, what will you do, if
you need to reinstall, or later upgrade to a newer version? All will be
lost. With extra partitions, a new version can be installed as a parallel
system, that can be fine tuned, and when all is working well, the old
system can be erased, and the partition reused. Until that time, the old
system is your fall back, working OS. A separate /home partition may be
reused as is, with the new version, only the / partition is changed.

At this stage, I'd recommend repartitioning, and reinstalling, before you
find yourself boxed in.


> The instll seemed to go ok but when I reboot "GRUB" prints out and it just hangs.
> I never get a chance to choose what OS I wish to boot to.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> - Rolf.

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