Hi, I finally decided to abandon Windows. Up till now, I had -as most of us I think- the choice between booting Win98 or SuSE 6.0. Since I'm upgrading to SuSE 6.3, the whole HD will be Linux. Now the question, When using Yast, I have the possibility to use the whole disk instead of partitioning. I presume it's possible to make a swap and native partition from that point. Is this correct and how does it involve the booting process ? Just hit the power switch and relax ... ? TIA kc -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, COLPAERT, Koen wrote:
I finally decided to abandon Windows.
A wise decision!
Up till now, I had -as most of us I think- the choice between booting Win98 or SuSE 6.0. Since I'm upgrading to SuSE 6.3, the whole HD will be Linux. Now the question, When using Yast, I have the possibility to use the whole disk instead of partitioning. I presume it's possible to make a swap and native partition from that point. Is this correct and how does it involve the booting process ? Just hit the power switch and relax ... ?
If you tell YaST to use the whole disk, it will create three partitions: a small /boot - Partition a swap partition (Size depends on your amount of RAM) a big partition (the remaining space on the disk) for / Usually this is OK for home use. If you have different needs, you should consider using the manual partitioning feature. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"COLPAERT, Koen" wrote:
Hi,
I finally decided to abandon Windows. Up till now, I had -as most of us I think- the choice between booting Win98 or SuSE 6.0. Since I'm upgrading to SuSE 6.3, the whole HD will be Linux. Now the question, When using Yast, I have the possibility to use the whole disk instead of partitioning. I presume it's possible to make a swap and native partition from that point. Is this correct and how does it involve the booting process ? Just hit the power switch and relax ... ?
You can use the whole disk for Linux and still paration. Some reasons why you should. It can make upgrading easier. My /home is on it's own. So worse comes to worse I can just reformat the other stuff and not worry about /home. The same thing with /usr/local. Keeping /var on it's own means if something goes crazy and fills up /var/log it won't fill up the whole system. Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Nick Zentena wrote: nz> "COLPAERT, Koen" wrote: nz> > nz> > Hi, nz> > nz> > I finally decided to abandon Windows. Up till now, I had -as most of us nz> > I think- the choice between booting Win98 or SuSE 6.0. Since I'm nz> > upgrading to SuSE 6.3, the whole HD will be Linux. Now the question, nz> > When using Yast, I have the possibility to use the whole disk instead of nz> > partitioning. I presume it's possible to make a swap and native nz> > partition from that point. Is this correct and how does it involve the nz> > booting process ? Just hit the power switch and relax ... ? nz> nz> You can use the whole disk for Linux and still paration. Some reasons nz> why you should. It can make upgrading easier. My /home is on it's own. nz> So worse comes to worse I can just reformat the other stuff and not nz> worry about /home. The same thing with /usr/local. Keeping /var on it's nz> own means if something goes crazy and fills up /var/log it won't fill up nz> the whole system. nz> Another one to think about seperating, especially on a multi-user system is /var/spool/mail hate to have a user piss someone off and your system gets mail bombed, thus filling up which ever drive mail resides on. If you use procmail, you can take care of this with a system wide file that automatically directs all mail to the users /home/$USER/mail/Inbox file rather then /var/spool/mail/$USER just something to think about. nz> Nick nz> nz> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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