Jim, On Sunday 24 April 2005 00:21, Jim Flanagan wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 18:54 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
I'm trying to install Suse 9.3 as a second linux install. My current HD setup is as follows...
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I suppose what I should do on the next clean install is make home on a primary partition, and put all others on extended partitons. Does this difference affect speed in any way?
There's absolutely no performance difference between a primary and an extendd partition. By the time the system is up and running, it has a simple mapping of device minor number to an internal partition table that tells where on the disk that partion starts and where it ends. How the entries in that table were derived (from primary or secondary partition entries) is irrelevant.
Also, how would I uninstall one of these installations? Do I simply delete the hdx and change the grub entry?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. You can always install over an existing installation. You can also erase (write over) a partition from a running Linux as long as you don't do it to your root partition or any other partition that is still mounted or which holds files critical to the continued normal operation of the system.
Jim Flanagan
Randall Schulz