[ale] First post

[Scott Castaline]

I have 2 13GB and 2 150GB drives with both SuSE 10.0 and Gentoo 2006.0,
but old habits are hard to break. My partitioning scheme goes back to my
UNIX days back in the late 70's and 80's.
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:51 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> On one hard drive? That is excessive. I can see using that scheme with
> multiple hard drives, but not with a single 40GB drive. Especially for
> a desktop machine.
> 
> On 5/16/06, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> > All depends on what you're doing with it. Do you plan on dual booting
> > Windoze/Xandros? If you're saying bye bye to the beast (M$ Windoze),
> > then I would recommend at least a /boot partition and the rest for all
> > of it. Of course you will want a partition for a swap file. You could
> > just make 1 partition and as you got more comfortable "playing around
> > with Linux, you can always change to a more sophisticated scheme. I
> > myself prefer, /boot, swap, /, /var at the very least.
> >
> > Scott Castaline
> >
> > Hey, I was born confused, what's your excuse?
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:22 -0400, Billy049 wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > I have always been a Windows user but recently decided to finally try
> > > Linux.  Xandros was recommended as being easy and similar Windows.  The
> > > CD should arrive any day now.
> > >
> > > I plan to install it exclusively on a 1ghz Altheon machine with a 40 gig
> > > hard drive with NTFS.  I understand that will not be a problem to Xandros.
> > >
> > > My first question is should I leave the drive as a single 40 gig
> > > partition?  Any other Xandros advice is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Bill Grubbs
> > > Atlanta
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