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Posted: June 17 2005,19:42

I've downloaded Dsl and tried it at an old PC of mine. I now wish to install it to the HD. In installation guides I found, it is said to make 2 partitions, a swap partition and another one. Is it possible to have more partitions with Dsl? I like to have at least my /home on a different partition than / .

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Posted: June 18 2005,04:27

I have just been learning about frugal install. It uses three partitions with one containing persistent /home and /opt directories, another for the system and another for swap. Check out the pdf here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....pdfdocs
That will explain it better than I ever could.

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Posted: June 18 2005,06:15

As far as I know, you are pretty-much unlimited in the number of partitions you can have (within reason, I guess).
An ideal minimum setup for frugal is the base partition, the swap partition (for better performance / less RAM worries), and a partition for /home, /opt, etc., but you could also have other partitions for seperating out your data... eg. you could have another partition for windows, another fat32 partition for data that you want to access from either dsl or win, etc.

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Posted: June 18 2005,10:24

But the install script only asks for the partition on which to install DSL. When I installed SlackWare on my box, I remember being asked the mount points for all partitions it could find.

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