Re: Installation
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:04 pm, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" <weaver@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
>>>> 'Newbie Install'.
>>>
>>> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if
>>> one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong
>>> several
>>> times and so have many others.
>>
>> That depends on the size of the drive.
>>
>> I make a / partition, a swap that is twice the size of RAM - on this
>> box,
>> 4 GB, and the rest is just assigned to home.
>>
>> That way the drive size is the only limiting factor.
>>
>> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal a
>> bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest as
>> /home
>> and copy it over.
>>
>> By that time, this would be a good project for the not-so-newbie.
>> Regards,
>
> What do you do, or what is the installer supposed to do, when you have
> several disks? Make a RAID-0 out of them and do as you describe? Make
> a RAID-1 or RAID-10 or RAID-5? Only use one disk? Put / and everything
> else on one disk and use the other(s) (one) for /home?
>
> I can see you saying that your clueless user doesn't have more than one
> disk.
In the majority of cases, they won't, having bought an OEM installed box,
where the manufacturer has kept the price down with a minimum of hardware.
What about the clueless user who scraped together their computer
> over time from old or cheap parts they were able to acquire, so they
> have a couple of old SCSI and IDE disks between 16, 36 and 100GB in
> size. They've got an OS they want to keep on the 100GB IDE disk, which
> is partitioned (someone else did it and they don't know how to change
> that), some data on the others, all partitions between 60--90% full with
> non-removable stuff, and now they want to try out Debian. They are in
> the installer and expect it to install without partitioning
> manually. What's the installer supposed to do or to offer them?
Why do you create scenarios that are overly complex?
There are many questions in this world.
Regards,
Weaver
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