On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:26:10 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: If you are experimenting I would choose Manual partitioning and go for a single 10/20 GB partition. You are not exactly installing very much and that is plenty.
A repeat question: how did you get the ISO on a USB stick? (Assuming this is what you did). > I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp > partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different > physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD > and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I > have an extra rotating disk of size 250GB I could easily use for > /home, and I suppose I could eventually move /home to that drive, but > for now, all of this is purely experimental and learning, so anything > I do that's wrong or inefficient can easily be redone in a matter of > minutes. > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:13:26 +0000, you wrote: > > >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote > > > >As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What > >partitioning scheme did you use? > > > >Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB > >stick from within Windows. How did you do it? > > > >I went through the speech synthesis install using the visual prompts > >and, when it came to the task selection stage (install > >additional software), chose "8 9 11". There was no problem with this. > > > > > >> Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install > >> additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and > >> there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go > >> through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done. > >> > >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30 +0000, you wrote: > >> > >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> > > >> >> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. > >> > > >> >"Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu. > >> > > >> >The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first > >> >gets packages from the DVD (if there is no mirror) whereas the second > >> >will get some of them from the net (a mirror is needed). I cannot see > >> >why using a netinst ISO is any better than DVD-1. > >> > > >> > > >
