> Other people might want to partition up the / into /, /usr, and /home, > but I don't consider that a big deal. I usually end up rebuilding my > laptop every month (guys at work tease me about it all the time), so I > don't get too fancy. However, Debian's ease of upgrades, installations, > and maintainence has me thinking about keeping my laptop this way. Actually, this is a great argument to have at least /home on a different partition. If you have to do a reinstall, you can just reinitialize the rest (/) and don't lose your data. My eperience after about 8 months is that I use more and more different partitions, so I can save as much as I have made. Thing is with a Linux install, is that you have to make it grow like something beautiful. Updating config scripts where you can.
> 3. Run Grub or LILO on hda. Debian's LILO seemed to detect WinXP just > fine (it labled it as WinNT, but oh well) Actually if you boot win2k it will tell you it is build on NT technology, so lilo probably is right. I like grub, since it makes it very easy to add another kernel or OS. There is some learning involved in the configuration (and the installation). But once you have it roling, it is so easy to use. (Don't want to start a Lilo <-> grub war here though). And then find yourself booting into debian whenever you can. Jord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
