Monday 05 Sep 2005 04:14 samaye Langsley alekhiit:
Hi all.
Hello. It would have been easier to get to reading your post if you had trimmed out mine to which you replied! :)
This is my first post to this list. I'm currently running SUSE 9.3. This is my first experience with SUSE
Welcome to SuSE! I've *tried* Mandrake and Red Hat. Neither was comfortable. With SuSE I'm home and dry! :) [Did I get the Inglish idiom right?]
My real reason for responding though is to say that I believe that it is imperative that we aim all installation instructions and programs directly at the beginner. That doesn't mean that an expert or some such alternative can't be offered, only that the basic install must be aimed at the complete novice.
Hear hear. This is already done to a great extent, however.
plan -2 (swap / boot /root /home each on its own partition
On this list or SLE somebody was recently saying that having /boot on its own partition causes problems while upgrading.
that an easily selected option be offered. IE swap size should be: 512M (OK) 1G (OK) or 2G.(OK) or some such.
Yeah, a nice round number should be OK. I've given 2 * 1G swaps. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)