<div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>Personally, I'm a big fan of Crunchbang (also Debian, painless<br>
install).<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-Dan<br><br>"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:11 PM, George Larson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:george.g.larson@gmail.com" target="_blank">george.g.larson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Okay! I think I understand enough to offer some help. -- or at least try.<br>
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Graphical installer -- I suppose we're using GParted?<br>
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I say you can do it with little to no expertise, including writing the<br>
fstab. Just seems strange for a Debian install.<br>
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I usually do a 'swap' that's twice the size of memory (up to a max of 2gb).<br>
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Obviously, you like a beefier '/tmp'.<br>
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'/home' is where all the user's files (downloads, bins, documents,<br>
etc.) will live and '/' is root where all the guts will get stored.<br>
<br>
Four partitions? I'd guess all primary partitions. If GParted wants<br>
to format them at the time, you're safe using 'ext4' on the non-swaps.<br>
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Once that's done, we can write your fstab as described here: [<br>
<a href="http://www.maketecheasier.com/getting-to-know-your-fstab/" target="_blank">http://www.maketecheasier.com/getting-to-know-your-fstab/</a> ]<br>
It old-school (instead of using UUID's) but should work to get you running.<br>
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Though, to be honest, this seems like a a pretty laborious install if<br>
you're not already familiar with these things. If you like Debian, it<br>
might be easier to use plain Debian (without the Mint bit)?<br>
Personally, I'm a big fan of Crunchbang (also Debian, painless<br>
install).</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Good luck! =D<br>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, tom <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 03/14/2014 05:53 PM, George Larson wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:58 PM, tom <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> How advanced does one need to be to Install and manually partition<br>
>>> Debian?<br>
>> I think manually a drive when I think of Arch, Slackware and maybe<br>
>> Gentoo? Definitely don't think that you need to do such things<br>
>> manually for Debian but, like anything else, it's only daunting until<br>
>> you've read a bit. If you've a drive free and clear that you can use<br>
>> then there shouldn't be anything scary about it at all. If you're<br>
>> trying to carve out space on an existing system (and assuming it's<br>
>> Windows) then Wubi might be something to consider.<br>
> I had the foresight to do on an extra drive<br>
>><br>
>>> Does one need to know how to write their own /etc/fstab?<br>
>> Uhm... You probably will not need to write your own fstab. May I ask<br>
>> what you're planning to do?<br>
> See <a href="http://imagebin.org/299394" target="_blank">http://imagebin.org/299394</a><br>
> "During the install you will be required to write your own /etc/fstab"<br>
><br>
> /<br>
> /tmp<br>
> /home<br>
> swap<br>
><br>
> And yes I do require a /tmp with size specified by me. /tmp is not big<br>
> enough on default install to meet my needs.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> What other skills does one need to have?<br>
>> See above. If you just want to use GNU/Linux, I don't think you need<br>
>> any of the mentioned skills.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Why do you want to write your own fstab?<br>
> I do not want to. It is required by the Linux Mint Debian Installer,<br>
> again see <a href="http://imagebin.org/299394" target="_blank">http://imagebin.org/299394</a><br>
>><br>
> Tom<br>
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