Subject: Re: install struggles
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 10:37:33 MST
.. just make sure / and /usr are on the same partition. I had major pain
when I split those two last weekend. The init scripts assume that they're
on the same partition and you get lots of exciting failures if you try and
do what rc.sysinit doesn't expect!
Iain
--On Friday, November 30, 2001 10:12 am -0700 Charlie Watts
<cewatts@frontier.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Bryan Walls wrote:
>
>> I won't bore with all the details. However, I'd like to have a
>> development/Internet server system at home. I installed the Internet
>> Server configuration, but couldn't compile Majordomo without
>> development stuff. So I started installing development material and
>> completely filled my disk.
>>
>> I have another SCSI disk I can add for more space. So, a few questions:
>>
>> 1. Is Majordomo the best solution for mailing lists that allow
>> user-initiated subscribes and unsubscribes. Does any list software
>> exist as a YDL rpm? As a source rpm? Majordomo is a pain to install.
>
> You can use RedHat SRPM's too. And they're MUCH more common.
>
> But no, I wouldn't recommend Majordomo. It's a pain to install and a pain
> to use, both for admin and client. I'd look at MailMan ...
> http://www.list.org/
>
>> 2. Is there a clean way to install both Development and Internet
>> Server loads?
>
> "Everything" :-)
>
>> 3. If I spread a distribution over multiple partitions, how should
>> they be broken up, and which on which disk? I have a smallish disk
>> (maybe 2GB?) with a 500MB Mac partition and the over-full YDL. The
>> new drive is a 4GB. What's the best setup to allow for easy future
>> upgrades?
>
> There isn't a "best setup". I'm likely to have a few hundred MB for /,
> "enough" space for /usr, "enough" space for /var, and "enough" space for
> /home. I like having /var and /home separate from everything else because
> those are the most likely to fill up, and if one fills up it won't affect
> everything else as much. I usually symlink /tmp into /var.
>
> But on my notebook, I just have a great-big / partition.
>
> Everybody does things completely differently. You've got a mostly-complete
> install ... make some guesses about how much space you'll need, and give
> it a shot.
>
> One thing I did is to -NOT- mac a MacOS partition ... I configured MOL to
> use a big file from inside Linux instead. I do have to be in Linux to boot
> MacOS now ... but I only do that -very- rarely, so it works great for me.
> I can gzip it up when I'm not using it ...
>
> --
> Charlie Watts
> cewatts@frontier.net
> Frontier Internet
> http://www.frontier.net/
>
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