[newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread.

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 28 02:21:33 2002

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. I don't seem to find my way around there

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just /, /home and one for swap (3 total) ___ ~ maybe, it handy, to have complete Reserve system on another Partition . . . kept up-to-date by a cron job to run rsync

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at reinstalling a thing of the past! I know, I was once

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo)

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:33, riccardo wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: My main question is:  will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:48, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a