Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (213 mails)

[Bill.Stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

My hard drives are 6G and 4G, respectively; my machine is about 5 years old
and its BIOS won't support anything above 10G (P2 300Mhz Asus motherboard,
Award BIOS, latest flash upgrades applied), but you can't buy 10G drives
anymore ... when they were for sale I didn't need them, and now that I
could use some extra room the smallest readily available is a 60G drive
that blew out my BIOS when I tried to install it.  I suppose I could pick
up a smaller drive at a show, but the shows are all on Saturdays and
Sundays, and I work Saturdays, and most of the vendors are gone on
Sunday's, and usually I don't have enough lead time from when the show is
announced to schedule a Saturday off.

So, I have SuSE 7.3 installed in a 2G partition on the 4G drive - well, in
fact, the 4G drive is divided up into a 2G W95 partition and the remaining
space is given over to Linux - I realize there's more than one Linux
partition.  The 2G W95 partition on that drive is used as a "hot" backup
for the Linux partitions (using Ghost Enterprise 6.5), and I have a similar
partition on the 6G drive filling the same purpose for Windows.  That way,
when one of my "experiments" causes the machine to turn purple and melt
through the floor, I can put things back exactly the way they were.  This
arrangement is not intended for hard-disk recovery; the idea is, take a
Ghost backup, perform experiment (or install software), get into
"oh-crap-it-failed" state, boot up W95, then restore Linux.  I create file
backups for my userids using "cp" out to zip disks; I'll master "tar"
someday, but now is not the time.

BTW, the root ("/") partition is 1.8G, not 1.8M like I said earlier.

Regards,
Bill Stephens
Sungard Availability Services
Phone: (215) 351-1099  Fax: (215) 451-4436