On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:38 am, you wrote: <snip> > Of course, when users choose "Desktop machine" for partitioning, one > can maybe assume safely that (s)he will choose the Desktop task when > the time comes for installing packages. > > So, IMHO, the minimum size for the root partition should then be > raised to "more than the size of the installed Desktop task" in th > partman-auto receipe named "desktop". > > My suggestion is highly debatable, for sure...but let's discuss it. > > I even tag this as "important" as we're dealing with a probable > frequent problem here...
I would agree that your suggestion would be prudent, as it does seem like it would come up fairly often, especially on older machines that don't have particularly large disks. I, and others, tout that as one of the many features of using a Linux system - being able to use older hardware with an up to date (and updatable) OS. A situation like this could be disastrous for an inexperienced user. For my business, I do quite a few of Linux installations on older machines of this type (disks < 5 Gigs), then optimize them for performance as well as possible. Since I use Debian branches almost exclusively, this could haunt me a bit if I inadvertently hit that particular partitioning scheme without noticing. Finding out that there's a space issue only _after_ downloading 500+ megs of packages is, how should I put it... rather infuriating - on any net connection. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
