Re: [Staffslug] Quick Partition Question..
You don't have to have your '/home' as a separate partition. This may well
prove far more flexable for you.
Matt
On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:17, Kris Douglas wrote:
You can get distributions that calculate all the partitions for you.
Distributions like SuSE and Fedora both do that, as does Ubuntu/ Kubuntu...
But the current layout seems good, but only for a fairly small
distribution...because my main linux distro now has over 10gigs of things
in the / partition....
It entirely depends on how you want to use your machine, and what for...
On 22/03/07, Carl Struyk <carl(a)struyk.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys - I have a 40GB HDD on my HP TC1100 slate PC and wanted to
> install Linux as as I'm sick of fiddling with Live CD's - I flit between
> 10 of them and never stick any of them out.
> I need to leave 15GB for Windows and wanted to divvy up the remaining
> 25GB. I have 512MB RAM so the swap is going to be 1024MB
>
> Would I be OK doing 15GB for the FAT32 shared partition, 1GB for swap,
> 4GB for /, 5GB for /home.
>
> I intend to put Gentoo on there to use and understand the (in) famous
> package manager which I've heard is top class.
>
> Carl
>
> On 3/22/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 22/03/07, Alan Pope <alan(a)popey.com> wrote:
> > > You can joke... I had to for a kernel bug that wasn't logged
> >
> > anywhere.. and
> >
> > > another issue with my dell laptop where the screen corrupted due to
> >
> > hardware
> >
> > > failure..
> > >
> > > http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/kernelbug
> > > http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/DellInspironXPSGen2Problem
> >
> > Been there got the tee shirt, my favorite though (Done it here loads
> > of times) is having to use Linux to fix/access a Windows box
> >
> > Now that is funny
> >
> > --
> > Dick Turpin
> > "At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"
> >
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