Hi everyone, I'm building a linux box with the following specs:

Pentium II 350mhz
394 MB RAM
1 x 4 gig IDE drive
1 x 8 gig IDE drive
2 x 4 gig SCSI drives

Any suggestions on how I should partition these? Thanks.

well it depends what you're going to do with it doesn't it? can you tell us more about how you intend to use it?

Wow--an antique!!

I'm guessing that the budget is very tight. If not, drop the small drives. Anything this old could be a failure waiting to happen.

You never NEED more than 1 partition (2 with swap)

Here is ONE way to go:
8GB IDE:
connect it as the primary (#1)
100M /boot
500M swap
All the rest /
2SCSIs:
1 partition each, mounted to mountpoints in /home---eg /home/data1 and /home/data2 From here, you can set up links from /home/<usernamer>
4GB IDE:
Spare--for example, if you have lots of application your 8GB is going to fill up fast. You can then maybe move /usr onto the 4G
But if the data drive fill up, then you can use the 4G for data

Thanks for the input, this machine will be more or less a network monitoring station - along with a few other smaller tasks. Other than that, I expect it to just idle along on my desk. The budget is a little tight, hahaha, so this is what I'm faced to work with. Also, Ubuntu 6.06 will be used as the distro.