I'm planning on installing (not updating) LM 8.1 over 8.0 this weekend. I've always been told that the PNP aware O/S option in BIOS should be set off, and that's what I've been doing in the past. Insofar as I know, whatever problems I've had have not been hardware related (at this site, problem root causes run about 98% user, 2% unidentified). But in a recent post, Civilime advised someone to set PNP O/S on, although the Mandrake installation manual says off. Is this a change in the party line, or is the on setting used in problematic situations?
One other question: A major construction project has begun in my area that will involve relocating the power lines. There have already been two unannounced outages, and more are likely. I was lucky, and the current ext2fs filesystem survived, this seems like a really good time to change a journalled filesystem, either ReiserFS or ext3fs. As part of the preparations for the LM 8.1 installation, I have copied my current /home/me to a separate partition (/archives) that is ext2fs. Am I correct that if I do an expert install, the / and /archives partitions can be ext2fs, and the balance can be one of the journalled formats? Regards, Carroll
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