I haven't been following this thread, so if I copy someone else's advice, please bear with me. If you have Windows on the machine, make a fat-32 partition of maybe one gig or so to use as a transfer between OS's. This is particularly important if the Windows f/s is ntfs. --doug On Tuesday 03 August 2004 15:34, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:15 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
That's exactly how I setup my boxes, even Sun has gone away from the old method of slicing up large disks into small ones. Some say that if you have a corruption, then you are spared, but not in my experience.
The ONLY modification I would recommend to the Yast standard is optionally breaking out /home into a separate partition. That way you can do a clean install and never touch your own private home directories.
Not strictly necessary, but often nice to have.