on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:10:11PM -0500, Al Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > You've also left off a recovery partition. ?I keep a 256 MiB - 512 > > MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept. > > I would go farther than that. > > My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install twice.
I suppose you can do that if you want, but there's no particular need. With a second bootable partition, you've got the option of pretty much moving anything else around. With Debian, your "installation" is your package list and /etc/ configurations, mostly (add stuff in /var, and user files). So you can wipe /usr with few concerns. Moreso if you have a local Debian mirror or apt-proxy cache to load off of. > That way if I decide to reinstall or make a major upgrade, the other > one is there for recovery. <snip> > It was a way that I could try Debian without losing my old Mandrake > system. > It was a way that I could switch to unstable, while keeping stable in > case of trouble. > > It was a way to keep a working system when the switch to gcc 3 and kde 3 > left unstable very broken a few times. Chroot install allows this, without requiring additional partitions. Any directory can serve as the parent of a chroot. > I used it as a recovery partition, when bad memory trashed the one I was > using. For this, a small recovery partition is sufficient. And backups can be useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I don't envy you the headache you'll have when you awake. But in the meantime, rest well, and dream of large women. - Princess Bride
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