Re: Putting It All On a Stick
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 13:26:10 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
If you are experimenting I would choose Manual partitioning and go for a
single 10/20 GB partition. You are not exactly installing very much and
that is plenty.
A repeat question: how did you get the ISO on a USB stick? (Assuming
this is what you did).
> I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp
> partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different
> physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD
> and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I
> have an extra rotating disk of size 250GB I could easily use for
> /home, and I suppose I could eventually move /home to that drive, but
> for now, all of this is purely experimental and learning, so anything
> I do that's wrong or inefficient can easily be redone in a matter of
> minutes.
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:13:26 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote
> >
> >As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What
> >partitioning scheme did you use?
> >
> >Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB
> >stick from within Windows. How did you do it?
> >
> >I went through the speech synthesis install using the visual prompts
> >and, when it came to the task selection stage (install
> >additional software), chose "8 9 11". There was no problem with this.
> >
> >
> >> Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install
> >> additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and
> >> there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go
> >> through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done.
> >>
> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30 +0000, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could.
> >> >
> >> >"Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu.
> >> >
> >> >The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first
> >> >gets packages from the DVD (if there is no mirror) whereas the second
> >> >will get some of them from the net (a mirror is needed). I cannot see
> >> >why using a netinst ISO is any better than DVD-1.
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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