Err, that's supposed to be 2 800MB IDE HDDs Shawn wrote: > Okay, I can't seem to find anything current on this for the current > kernel release. I'm trying to build a machine, with a number of > drives: 2800MB IDE's, and 3 200MB SCSI's. > > I have the following partitions and sizes: > /dev/hda1 / 275MB > /dev/hda2 /usr 525MB > /dev/hdb1 /var 275MB > /dev/hdb2 /tmp 275MB (not swap space, as swap is on another > drive than this) > /dev/hdb3 /files 250MB (future NFS directory) > > One of the 200MB scsi drives are partitioned for swap space (64MB) and > the other is for /home which takes up the rest of the drive. The > other two are full partitions and will be used for misc. directories > of data storage. > > When loading Slack 8, I get the a point in the install and I receive > an error. IO/xx or something. Typically I've gotten this when my > partitions are too small. Which I'm assuming is the case now. > This box is going to be my gateway/firewall on a dial-up connection > and will be moved over whenever cable becomes available. I'm not > running X, so the install should be smaller. > > So, here's the question: With not running X, what are my partitions > sizes supposed to be? I have an older System book which is based off > of RedHat, but that is for the old 2.2 kernel and RH 6.1 I think but > the partitions seem to be too small now. > > Any help? >