Partitioning

All-- I'm installing Debian Potato on a new workstation. I have 2 disks, and I wanted to put OS and apps all on one and user data all on the other. On sda, I made a bootable partition and partitions for /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and swap. When I tried to make sdb all one partition, I couldn't writ

debian newbie questions -- security

All--- And I thought the RedHat list I subscribe to was active! I'm considering a switch from RH 6.2 to Debian stable for a dual-processor workstation I use for crunching numbers and making graphs/plots with GMT. I'm thinking about the move because I just can't keep up with manual updates on RH,