On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition > scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can > divide those partition into logical partitions. All things being equal, > it's better to avoid logical partitions if you can. It's also simpler for > you, the installer. :-> >
How hard should I try to avoid logical partitions? What's the impact of using them? I'm about to get a new mainboard and disk to replace my trusty 386sx, and I was hoping to use more than four partitions. Another question: I was thinking of installing both stable and unstable. They can be rescue partitions for one another, and if unstable does weird things while I need to get some work done I can abandon ship and switch to stable. Also I can play with unstable without fear of destroying my only system. :) Anyway, I'm hoping to share /home, swap, and /tmp between the two systems. Are there any other directories I can share? Maybe /usr/local? Is this a good idea in general? Anything I should consider before trying it? Thanks, Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
