--- Gary Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:31:58 -1000 > Vince Hoang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Suppose Andrew (the original poster) wants to try > Debian, Mandrake, and > Fedora. Can he create one partition for home and use > that with whichever > distro he boots?
I have personally performed a re-install on a previously partitioned disk using Mandrake and Red Hat. Essentially, you can link /home to what ever partition you have designated using fdisk in another OS (whether it's linux, windows, etc.) As long as the filesystem is compatible to read/write between the different operating systems, the difficult part is figuring out which partition you have designated. I personally prefer to write down a simple partition table, listing which partitions I have designated in previous distributions, and the space allocated to each partition. This table, and a copy of the root password and lilo password, should fit well on an index card, which I tape down on the side panel of the case. Remember, there truly is no way you can document too much information during a clean install. > > > 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. > > To me this is not an either/or. Wherever the ISO > files are hosted, they > need to be downloaded and burned. I know that > FreeBSD can be installed via > an Internet connection, after booting from a pair of > diskettes. I think > Gentoo does something similar. Do other distros > offer this method? The last I heard was that only way you can perform a SuSE install without buying the installation disks was to perform a FTP install, after you download a net installer. I do know that the last time I went to the Debian site they mentioned that a net installer was being developed for sarge. Has anyone heard an update on this? Casey Roberts __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/