HD Install :: fresh drive partitions wanted

DSL is much better suited for desktop than for servers and isn't enterprise-level like RH/CentOS. I don't even know why you're trying to use it for a production system, much less balancing DSL versus Red Hat at all. Any distro can be "low overhead" if it's set up properly -- especially those suited for use in server environments instead of desktop live CDs.

If you have experience and are competent with CentOS, you should be able to handle the re-partitioning scheme you want without asking the kinds of questions you have.

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