I don't keep the iso's on my HD once I have burned them. But the expanded contents are sometimes very handy to have there. For instance, disk3 contains an excellent book called "Slackware Linux Essentials" or something like that, and there are lots of FAQ's, README's, and howto's to reference occasionally. Most important, my system maintains a "locate" database that is updated once a day, and the "locate" command is a real winner. With the distribution disks stored on my HD, they are included in the locate database along with everything else. It occupies about 2.6 GB on one of my two 40 GB disks to keep them there, so that's not outrageous. I use "pilot" a lot to navigate directory structures, and to have the entire distro online for navigating in pilot is also a great plus. Chuck On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Maybe this is a dumb question, but why keep the contents of the isos on > your hard drive when you can mount the cdroms anytime and search for and > get what you want or for that matter could do the same with the iso stored > on your hard drive--though again that is disk space? I think I'm somehow > missing the probably obvious point. > > > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (96% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
