-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 19 February 2004 7:25 am, Lanman wrote: <whack> > Wow! Mister Lanman ? Gee, I feel like I should be wearing a tie! Anybody > wanna buy a bridge ? Grin! This is the page where you can find the download > links. > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100beta.php3 > > I can't say for sure whether or not it will work well on your system, but > if you back up your files and home folders before starting an install, you > can always re-install 9.2 and copy your data back - if needed. > > If your install goes as well as mine did, I think you'll enjoy it! You > should see a difference in performance as well. Remember to set "/" for 2.5 > Gb's and "/usr" for at least the same amount. "/var" can live with 1.5 > Gb's, and you should make your "swap" file at least 400 Mb's. > > On a side note, I wanted to ask the list about something I just discovered. > When I did my 10.0 RC1 install, I created a 4 Gb root partition ( "/" ), a > swap and "/home" partitions as well. However, the /usr partition used up > almost half of that. > > The next time I went to install an application, I found out that I was out > of space onn the "/" partition. Having some left over space on my drive to > be used as storage, I deleted the storage partition, and added a new "/usr" > partition. > > This is where it's gets a little "sexy". As soon as I selected /usr for the > mount point, diskdrake popped up a new window asking me if I wanted to > transfer the data from the "/usr" directory ( still sitting on the "/" > partition ), to the new "/usr" partition i was creating. It then procedded > to transfer the data without a problem, updated /etc/fstab, and it was > done! > > Is this a feature that everyone knew about? Or is this a new feature in > 10.0 ? Has anyone had this happen before? This was slick! I've never heard > of an "auto-transfer" before! Almost felt like Artificial Intelligence!
That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1? I thought everyone knew about it. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk 09:05:18 up 1 day, 10:57, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.33, 0.32 "Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends." - --Woody Allen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFANN+kZqvqlrLPr5YRAvAtAKCtci6Nt+utWtlwuu4TyN6FbO0VfACeK7Mm 0qtfoW3RoLPX3Qc+EQDiVc0= =Pafz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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