Disk partitioning and swap

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

Red Hat allows you to use fdisk (thank heavens).  I tried the druid once
and never came back.  I would recomend fdisk to all first time Red Hat
users.  Select it at partitioning time during the install and reference
the documentation in the distribution or the builtin help within fdisk.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Mike Bilow wrote:

> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 99 22:50:00 -0000
> From: Mike Bilow <mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net>
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Disk partitioning and swap
> 
> 
> 
> Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
> 
>  JF{> I had recently recommended Linux to a friend in upstate New
>  JF{> York. He got Red Hat 5.2. Red Hat uses Disk Druid as its
>  JF{> primary partitioning tool. He found it very confusing, even
>  JF{> after I told him to make 1 large partition. When dealing
>  JF{> with non-technical people, the installations should be set
>  JF{> up simplisticly. 
> 
> I've never been able to figure out Disk Druid, either, and I don't consider
> myself a novice.  When the guys writing the device drivers can't operate the
> partitioning tool, there's something wrong.  When I have had to install Red
> Hat, and it's not my personal preference, I have had to drop out to a shell and
> use fdisk to get what I wanted.  It simply was not worth the effort to bang my
> head against the wall learning Disk Druid.
> 
>  JF{> I also have installed Debian 2.0 (I have 2.1, but have not
>  JF{> yet installed it). 
>  JF{> Debian 2.0 is not for novices. It is a very thorough
>  JF{> release, but one needs to know what one is doing. even if
>  JF{> you are using one of their canned release profiles. 
> 
> Debian 2.1 is not significantly different from 2.0 in the installation
> procedure.  While Debian's installation front-end is not very friendly, almost
> anyone should be able to get a reasonable result by taking all of the defaults.
>  
> -- Mike
> 
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