KLASH@bnr.ca (K.B.) (11/16/90)
Well, my last query resulted in such an overwhelming response, I should first say thanks to one and all who responded (I had requested info on setting up a third-party SCSI on a Sun 3/60). I have a few new questions. 1. The disk I'm getting is a 360 Meg drive. I'm wondering how I should partition it. I plan to install X11R4 (core, with some selected contrib clients), Emacs 18.55 (or 18.56, if it becomes available), perl, and maybe a bit of other GNU stuff that would likely reside in /usr/local. My first guess for partitions is: (swap) : about 30 Meg / : about 10 Meg /usr : about 100 Meg /home : Whatever's left The machine is color, with 8 Meg Ram, which I will probably add to shortly. Is 30 Meg for swap enough? I know I can use swapon(8) to use some space on /home, but if the system has to use it, then obviously I haven't left enough for swapping. Also, is the 100 Meg for /usr enough? Or is it overkill? 2. I will have the on-line manual pages installed. Is there any part of the printed docs that aren't in the on-line ones? I'm thinking of the System Admin section, in particular. Any other pertinent docs I should have? 3. The machine will be running as standalone. Someone told me I will have to have some kind of "Ethernet Terminator" if I want to run X11 without being connected to a network. Is this true? If so, can you give me any details?