yes, I am new at this If someone might care to respond, the situation with the install is this: I don't know what pkgs I will elect Not to append (I need many, from graphics through C++ packages, as well as webbrowsers and windowing apps). Yet, in order to have say, 200M of free space (just in case), using the gui-wizard interface (Not the druid), the / directory needs to be of fixed size. The default mode of the / directory, however, is to allow the / directory (a diff partition, yes) to *grow* as necessary. Given I have had a freeze up as the system directories were *full* (don't know why -- just added a java applet and boom! -- gad a warning would have been nice!!!), i am inclined to follow the default method. However, I am continuously warned to have at least 200M of free space -- been a long time, but at one point this was definitely a must. (get this, I have a 9Gig drive and am worrying...I had an Apple 2 with 64K at one point and felt no pain!!!) Anyway, with all the relative *havetos* of swap, boot, etc, plus dedicating 1.5G to /usr/local, and a bit to /www and /home...I am down to 8M of free space if I let the / go wild. Is this the way to go? or to constrain the /? Please don't tell me it really doesn't matter, cuz that is probably why I can't decide. To anyone who made it through all the above, thanks for your patience... Thanks for any help mgolter
