On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 08:26:26PM +0200, jdd wrote:
I would put /home, / for beginner as the will most likely have no idea how to save their data once they upgrade.
save the data is necessary outside the computer (cd, dvd is the best, or usb drive).
I have a 150GB HD. About 130GB is used. Untill a few days ago I did not even HAVE a DVD burner, just a CD burner. That would have been a LOT of CD's to burn. Even with DVD's it is quit a task.
_any_ disk or partition present on the computer can be lost during any install.
Backing up is a good practice. Unfortunatly this is not always a possibilaty.
I remember a PC with two drives. install red hat. choose option "server".
RH did format _the two disks_ (I never installed red hat after that :-()
If a person has one disk an all on / wth no seperate /home, this wil be standard. -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs