[colug-432] Install and Manually Partition Debian

[Dan Kaiser]

>
>
> Personally, I'm a big fan of Crunchbang (also Debian, painless
> install).
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>
I'll second the Crunchbang recommendation.  That's my primary distro
currently, and I have separate / and /home partitions on my main drive.  I
did have to edit my fstab, but that was to get a second HDD to mount
automatically.  The partitions on the primary drive were set-up
automatically without any manual intervention.

BTW, if you run into issues with the #! install ISO not working correctly
(I've had that happen with two different machines) there is a script out
there that will take a fresh base install of Debian and turn it into #!.
 It's located on the #! forums, but was sort of a pain to locate the last
time I needed it.  If you run into that issue let me know and I'll send you
the direct link.

-Dan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." - Aristotle


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:11 PM, George Larson
<george.g.larson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay!  I think I understand enough to offer some help. -- or at least try.
>
> Graphical installer -- I suppose we're using GParted?
>
> I say you can do it with little to no expertise, including writing the
> fstab.  Just seems strange for a Debian install.
>
> I usually do a 'swap' that's twice the size of memory (up to a max of 2gb).
>
> Obviously, you like a beefier '/tmp'.
>
> '/home' is where all the user's files (downloads, bins, documents,
> etc.) will live and '/' is root where all the guts will get stored.
>
> Four partitions? I'd guess all primary partitions.  If GParted wants
> to format them at the time, you're safe using 'ext4' on the non-swaps.
>
> Once that's done, we can write your fstab as described here:  [
> http://www.maketecheasier.com/getting-to-know-your-fstab/  ]
> It old-school (instead of using UUID's) but should work to get you running.
>
> Though, to be honest, this seems like a a pretty laborious install if
> you're not already familiar with these things.  If you like Debian, it
> might be easier to use plain Debian (without the Mint bit)?
> Personally, I'm a big fan of Crunchbang (also Debian, painless
> install).



> Good luck!  =D
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/14/2014 05:53 PM, George Larson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:58 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> How advanced does one need to be to Install and manually partition
> >>> Debian?
> >> I think manually a drive when I think of Arch, Slackware and maybe
> >> Gentoo?  Definitely don't think that you need to do such things
> >> manually for Debian but, like anything else, it's only daunting until
> >> you've read a bit.  If you've a drive free and clear that you can use
> >> then there shouldn't be anything scary about it at all.  If you're
> >> trying to carve out space on an existing system (and assuming it's
> >> Windows) then Wubi might be something to consider.
> > I had the foresight to do on an extra drive
> >>
> >>> Does one need to know how to write their own /etc/fstab?
> >> Uhm...  You probably will not need to write your own fstab.  May I ask
> >> what you're planning to do?
> > See http://imagebin.org/299394
> > "During the install you will be required to write your own /etc/fstab"
> >
> > /
> > /tmp
> > /home
> > swap
> >
> > And yes I do require a /tmp with size specified by me. /tmp is not big
> > enough on default install to meet my needs.
> >>
> >>
> >>> What other skills does one need to have?
> >> See above.  If you just want to use GNU/Linux, I don't think you need
> >> any of the mentioned skills.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Why do you want to write your own fstab?
> > I do not want to. It is required by the Linux Mint Debian Installer,
> > again see http://imagebin.org/299394
> >>
> > Tom
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