Disk space not seen
As a new user of Linux it took me four times to get it installed on my old
machine, the last time I had to take apart my PC to resolve a minor cable
problem that Windows 95 had no problem with. I read for a full week the
documentation provided on the Debian web site before I attempted to install
Debian.
My problem now is that Debian does not see all of the hard drive space
available to it.
Here is how I have partioned two hard drives the first a little over 400
meg the second
a little over 500 meg.
hda1 / 50 meg
hda5 /home 25 meg
hda6 /usr/lib 200 meg
hda7 /usr/games 130 meg
hdb1 /usr 428 meg
hdb2 swap 72 meg
This is an old 100 mez 486 with 24 meg of ram. This is a system I built
piece by piece and want to continue to use. My last system I bought the
latest and greatest at the time but now am disabled and cannot afford to
buy another new machine. I have some experence as a user with UNIX both on
a PC and mainframes so I choose Linux to allow me to keep using my old machine.
Debian shows the total space available for /usr as the 428 meg on hdb1. It
does not count the 200 meg under ./usr/lib on hda6 or the 130 meg under
/usr/games on hda7.
I selected the Desktop machine before dselect but it would not install the
last few megs
because dselect said I was out of room even though I had created these
extra partitions to give myself plenty of room. I dslected some of the
optional packages and finally got it to load out.
I wish to use the X window system and don't know if just the standard X
packages will allow me to use it. Plus is there any way to make dselect to
see this extra space?
Thanks to all you take their valuable time to help this newbe!
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