[chop!]
Tyro says he's excited by such matters as 'a secure environment'.
That means security matters such as not letting runaways lock up the machine and consume all the disk space.
[wack!]
This isn't throwing him in the deep end; we've given him a great deal of material and references and encouraged experimentation. We should be positive about him progressing.
Adding /tmp at installation is a small step. [zoing!]
as a suggestion for the OP (and maybe he's stopped reading by now); given his constraints (can't nuke the machine, can't afford to have it down for all day, worried about losing partitioning, wants to learn, etc, etc), I think it might be a good idea to go with virtualbox* [http://www.virtualbox.org - from Sun (now Oracle) it's free for personal use], this seems like it'd fit nicelyfor your needs, allowing creation one or more virtual machines to play with. this will be a bit expensive on disk space but a cheap external drive should make it very easy to store all the isos, virtual disks, ad nauseam that you could want. (well.. hopefully. you could go nuts, I suppose) the virtual machine will be completely contained within the host OS (windows, I'd think.. although you could do the same and make Linux your host OS). this seems like it'd be an excellent use of the hardware, you'd not be able to break your existing parition(s)/installations and you could learn, try all sorts of wild setups with a myriad of OS variants and never have to burn a single CD/DVD. it's just a suggestion, take it with as many grains of whatever as to make you feel comfortable. * - yes, there are other virtual machine implementations that could be used instead of virtualbox, it's just a suggestion. vmware may or may not be workable, I don't know how the license works for the free (is there even a free version anymore?), xen, and probably others. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org