On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Orion the Hunter wrote: > OK, you asked for it... > > I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for > exaple, debian potato).
Actually, i'm running potato right now. Haven't had too many troubles with it yet, submitted bug reports (usually with solutions) when i have. > You don't need to make a partition with this space right now, just set > some space apart for later. You could probably take that space from > /home and /usr. How about if i steal it from my 6G windoze drive? (: Which i plan to anyway, once i get the Linux fixed. The only reason i keep it around if Just In Case someone forces me to use a windows-only prog that doesn't function under Wine. (no cash for vmware, so don't anyone suggest it!) Yeah, i know i put a lot into home and usr. For home at one point i was up to 600M because of too many random data files, cut that in half but i still want the space available in case i need it short-term. For usr, it's just huge already, it needs space. > I would also mount the root partition in hda1 and all the others as > logical partitions (hda5, hda6,...) within an extended partition > (hda2). Any particular reason? Remember, i'm asking as much to learn as to get answers...
