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OK. My main comp (laptop) is like this:
hda1 - 2 gb - fat32 - win2000
hda2 - 256 mb - swap
hda3 - 5 gb - ext3 - my distro
hda4 - the rest, about 13,5 gb - fat32 - music, tv recordings and movies
Quote (curaga @ May 11 2007,11:51)
OK. My main comp (laptop) is like this:
hda1 - 2 gb - fat32 - win2000
hda2 - 256 mb - swap
hda3 - 5 gb - ext3 - my distro
hda4 - the rest, about 13,5 gb - fat32 - music, tv recordings and movies

Thanks for the example, curaga.

So if all your data (multimedia, photos, documents, etc.) is on hda4, does that mean all the configuration settings, boot-up programs, etc. are on hda3?  Why do you have 5gb when DSL only occupies about 1% of it?  What takes up the other 99%?

Is this a frugal install?  If so, how do you upgrade when a new version of DSL is released?
This isn't DSL, it's my distro. I call it Aero System (named it before Vista named its UI). It currently takes ~1 gb, but I like to keep the kernel source there, that is ~400mb. I keep all my Linux data on the Linux partition, and only the data I want to use from both OS's on hda4.

DSL hd install takes about 200 mb.. Maybe that wasn't a good example since it's not DSL. Here's my DSL comp (old desktop =) ):
hda1 - ~890 mb - ext2 - DSL hd install
hda2 - 128 mb - swap
Quote (curaga @ May 11 2007,13:06)
This isn't DSL, it's my distro. I call it Aero System (named it before Vista named its UI). It currently takes ~1 gb, but I like to keep the kernel source there, that is ~400mb. I keep all my Linux data on the Linux partition, and only the data I want to use from both OS's on hda4.

DSL hd install takes about 200 mb.. Maybe that wasn't a good example since it's not DSL. Here's my DSL comp (old desktop =) ):
hda1 - ~890 mb - ext2 - DSL hd install
hda2 - 128 mb - swap

You're not fooling that it's an old desktop.  That old computer with barely a 1GB hard drive must have been made around 1996-1997.  (Thanks to the world of bloatware, computers aren't any faster today than they were back then.)

So you have hda1 for your DSL installation and 128MB for a swap drive.  How do you upgrade DSL when a new version comes out?  I thought the frugal install requires the booting portion and the stored data to be on different partitions.
He's not using a frugal...
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