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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing Linux on an individual drive and the MBR.. Post 4798 by PravusMentis on Tuesday 31st of July 2001 07:30:00 PM
Old 07-31-2001
Installing Linux on an individual drive and the MBR..

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If I install linux on my 2nd HD which is aprox 30 Gigs do I still need to worry about all this W2k MBR editing stuff, and could anyone tell me a good size for each area (Root, Home, var etc etc))
 

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NAME
dwww-build-menu - builds dwww Debian Documentation Menu SYNOPSIS
dwww-build-menu DESCRIPTION
dwww-build-menu is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. dwww-build-menu generates the Debian Documentation Menu pages (available on http://localhost/dwww/menu/), from files registered with doc-base program, found in the /var/lib/doc-base/documents The generated pages are stored in DWWW_DOCROOTDIR/dwww/menu directory. (Default is /var/www/dwww/menu.) FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf Configuration file for dwww. /var/www/dwww/menu Default directory for generated menu pages. /var/lib/dwww Temporary directory used while generating the pages. SEE ALSO
dwww(7), dwww-build(8), install-docs(8), Debian doc-base Manual in /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html. AUTHOR
Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>. See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff. dwww 1.11.1 February 15th, 2009 DWWW-BUILD-MENU(8)
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