> I have also decided to run only Lenny on my Laptop.
Congratulations, it's a very good choice.
> Is it a good idea to install everything on one partition i.e. whole Hard
> Disk ?
I would personally recommend a small (100-200MB) partition for /boot
(typically using ext3) and the rest should be a single large LVM
partition. Then I'd create a single LVM volume (you can make it just
10GB or 20GB large) for / plus a second LVM volume for swap (maybe 1GB).
The leftover space can be used at any point later (without reboot)
either by extending the existing volume or by creating a new volume.
I tend to use one LVM volume for /, one for swap, one for /home, plus
one for my media collection (DVD+flac).
> Or should I make partitions at the time of installation ?
If you go the LVM route, you'll be able to change you mind later on
easily. Just remember that you can easily increase the size of
a filesystem "online", but reducing its size online is more problematic,
so better make them too small to start with.
> And I have read somewhere issues about shutting down. May i know which
> command should I use to shut down the system.
"shutdown -h now", or "halt", or click on the "shutdown" entry in
the menu. You can also just turn off your computer without shutting
it down, of course.
Stefan
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