RE: Question about partitioning

2000-07-16 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
What you have described is almost exactly what I have working on one of my boxes at home..I don't think you will have a problem installing Linux on drive D:. I usually like to use different file systems for the /, /usr, /boot, /var and /home as corruption on one will not affect the others. If

Re: Question about partitioning

2000-07-15 Thread John Carline
Ed Burke wrote: > Hi Gang, > I have reconsidered installing linux - now that I have all > my ducks in a row. >I had NT installed on an ex-corporate machine. So there were a lot > of nifty programs > but no meat behind them. I opted to discard this and install W 95 > in

Re: Question about partitioning

2000-07-15 Thread Tom Pfeifer
First of all, if you're installing Debian, I'd suggest going with version 2.2 (potato,frozen) instead of 2.1 (slink,stable). Potato is about to be released and is quite stable. Potato includes the new version of Lilo, so the 1024 cylinder issue is no longer a problem. I strongly suggest reading th