On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:43:50AM -0500, resonant evil wrote: > Hi there > > Excellent, informative response. I definitely did not understand the layout > to that extent, and that definitely puts it into perspective alot more.. I > also never understood why making so many seperate partitions was usually > reccomended when installing, but I had always just gone with a root / > partition and a swap partition.. I guess I find it difficult to dictate how > to split up the filesystem.. This is only on a laptop with a 60gb drive, and > only 30 of it is designated to Linux, and I wouldn't have a clue how big to > allow the various partitions. More than enough. I use 5 Gb partitions, and the entire full bore installation with all options almost always fits in 5 Gb. Use one for /usr/local and one for /home. > That being said, I guess thats something I'll have to look into a bit more > and I guess I'll go ahead and install a newer version of Debian (which is > what I was assuming you were saying, right?) Like Debian-STABLE is quite > outdated, and its best to leave a STABLE installation exactly that; > stable.. While I was waiting for a response I was trying my luck on the > FreeNode #debian channel and generally got the same reccomendation: To > enjoy the latest and greatest, run -TESTING. This isn't a die-hard server > that I need to depend on life-and-death and think I would have alot more fun > playing with the new goodies, so I'm gonna go ahead and reinstall tomorrow. > > I really appreciate the informative response and I'll definitely remember it > :) > Thanks m8 You're quite welcome. As this is off-topic here, feel free to contact me for further discussion; it's always nice to share what one has learned, especially when one has done so the hard way... ;) Bill Tallman _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
