* Terry Eck (tleck@mindspring.com) [010629 19:44]: ->Bob Rea wrote: ->> ->> I have an older computer that has just returned from being on loan. I ->> wan to put 7.2 on it. I have two drives, 1.5 G and 6 g. I will need ->> to custom partition it, right? It has less than 64 megs, so no ->> graphical install. And I can get YaST 1 to run, so all i have is the ->> text version of YaST 2. I have asked suse-support about this. But ->> this is the question: How would you recommend that i set up the ->> partitions on the two drives. The more detailed your suggestions, the ->> better, since this is sort of new to me. ->> -> ->Hello Bob, ->If I had that system I'd make sure the 6G drive is master (/dev/hda) and ->the 1.5G was slave (/dev/hdb). Put /boot and / onto /dev/hda1 and ->/dev/hda2. ->Put swap on /dev/hdb1 and use /dev/hdb2 for either /home /var. ->Hope this helps. BTW, depending what you want to do with the system ->64meg ->may be large enough for X. I would make the 6gb master on the primary and the 1.5 master on the secondary..because they are different mode drives and EIDE doesn't like this. The slower 1.5 would drag the 6gb down to it's speed were it master..and the 6gb is going to try to force the 1.5 to it's speed which will screw it up eventually. I would it this way. 6G = /dev/hda CDROM = /dev/hdb 1.5G = /dev/hdc But then again...you can do as you wish...this is just my 0.02 :) -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- The only argument for the superiority of Windows over UNIX is that General Protection Fault outranks Colonel Panic.