I've got the full blown `040 chip with FPU, 136 megs of RAM, the Asante ethernet card, and a nice fat external 8 gig SCSI drive just for Debian, along with a 1 gig with bootable OS 8.1 on it. I've already got basic advice from Dana. (Thanks Dana!)

My questions:
(1) How best to partition the 8 gig for Debian? I'm told I need two partitions, one for Debian and one for a "swap" partition. How big should those be?

(2) I'm told I need to format those partitions as A/UX before doing the Debian net-install. What should I use to do this? HDSC Setup will not see the drive since it is a Micropolis drive, not a drive with an Apple ROM. I know there's a hack for HDSC Setup, but does anyone know if Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools runs on a 68K? And will it do an A/UX format?

(3) Maybe I should also put a small HFS partition on it too, for a bootable MacOS just to run the Penguin booter? 100 meg or so just for the heckuvit sound good? That way everything I need is all on one drive? Does that sound good?

Thanks in advance!
-Mark

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