[thelist] Re: 2 Linux Questions

> Howdy There .... fellow evolterootski-tootskis,

Hello, 

You know, my flatmate and myself have been trying to pronounce that 
for the past few hours, keep tripping up on the 'toot' bit.


You've had some good suggestions from the others on the list, I 
thought I'd throw my two penneth in aswell.


> (1)	Any suggestions on setting "mount points"? Names and sizes?


Mandrake has quite a nifty auto partitioning tool during the install 
process. I know someone mentioned they had had problems with it, but 
it's been fine for me. I think it's marked "Auto-partition", but 
anyway, it's a button at the bottom of the dialog box that displays 
your drives during the installation process.

On my 3gig drive it split it into:

/boot (where the kernel images reside..I think, still learning)
/ 
/usr
/home
/swap


There are lots of different reasons for partitioning, but it's 
helpful to separate out content on different partitions. For 
instance, having a partition for /home means that if I hose my system 
(which happened a couple of nights ago), I can re-install, but tell 
it to leave /home alone. So all my personal files are safe. It's the 
same sort of logic with a partition for all your web development 
work.

I'm still a learner at all this, so take everything I say with a 
pinch of salt, or make lots of backups *:)

It's well worth having a look at http://www.linux.org/ in the HOWTO 
section as well. I'm sure there's a Partitioning-HOWTO, can't check 
right now though, sorry.


G.



<tip type="Linux Desktops" Author="Garrett Coakley">

Gnome (http://www.gnome.org/) have released version 1.2 of the Gnome 
desktop. Much improved over version 1, it incorporates User Interface 
work done by Helixcode (http://www.helixcode.com/) and also comes 
with a handy installer (if hand installing isn't your bag).

</tip>



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