On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:55:56PM -1000, Andrew Keyes wrote: > I have a four year old 550MHz machine which had a 10GB hard drive. I > just purchased a new 80GB drive and am looking for recommendations on > how to make the most of it.
Slice it up into many partitions to make room for all the distributions you are going to try. > Secondly should I download and make some CDs first and then do > an install, are the CD images on the videl server somewhere? ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/IMAGES/ has a ton of ISOs. > I also need Windows as well, and so was wondering for GRUB is > still the best boot manger for a dual or triple boot system. Grub is more friendly, especially for desktops, but I still like lilo for servers. > Finally I was wondering about making extended partitions, > does linux care if the swap partition is a main partition or > extended? what about other partitions? This is not really an issue any more. > If Warren or who ever runs the luau site is interested I can > take the answers and make an HTML page to post on this sort of > decision making. I would love it if people that ask questions made a summary and added it to the wiki: http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/ -Vince