Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-02 Thread gustavo_cm
See Magic Banana's answer on this same topic: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-installation-help#comment-17364

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-02 Thread gustavo_cm
This /storage mount point is a good idea. I do something different: I have a /home/library directory, where I put all my books, musics and movies, sorted not by file type, but in categories like art, politics, computing and so on. In my user directory I have office things, like e-mails,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-02 Thread alonivtsan
It's a shame GRUB-legacy doesn't support GPT as that is what Parabola offers by default, so if you intend to use Parabola and want everything to just work after installation it's best to create extended partitions :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-01 Thread gp
It really depends on what you intend to do with your system.If you'll install a *lot* of applications and games etc, then go with this / root partition ~25gb /home home partition rest of it if you just use your computer for daily work, 15gb is more than enough for the root partition ( /

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-01 Thread akirashinigami
Regarding swap, I've heard this advice before, but it's never made sense to me. Applications use swap when they run out of RAM, right? If that's the case, then shouldn't you need less swap if you have more RAM?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel installation help

2012-03-01 Thread alonivtsan
If you wish to install a different distro in the future in addition to Trisquel (e.g. Parabola) it is best to make a small home directory, as the home directory also stores application settings which might not work if you use a different version of installed packages (or the same version