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Re: my 2 questions...
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> erase the "F:" partition and make AT LEAST two partition - one for root
> and one for swap, and it is recommended that you make more (one for for /,
> one for /usr, one for /home etc.). For further details about this process
I tend to disagree on too much partitioning. Today, after a few
months of using Debian, I can more-or-less know how much to put
in each partition, but I wouldn't expect a newbie to make the
right estimate on his first installation. Besides, the benefits
of multiple partitions are minor in his case (Actually, what are
they? Once he buys a larger disk he can just copy stuff over and
reorganize). This isn't true just for Linux, on every new UNIX
I install (recently SGI IRIX 6.2, for instance) I create one large
file system and install things "to get the feel".
I'd recommand you to just make two partitions - around ~100Mb for swap
and the rest for a / filesystem.
Cheers,
--Amos
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