I chose the partition scheme offering separate /, /home, /var and /tmp partitions. I would have preferred to put /home on a different physical drive only because everything else will be living on an SSD and I would prefer to keep the writes to that disk at a minimum. I have an extra rotating disk of size 250GB I could easily use for /home, and I suppose I could eventually move /home to that drive, but for now, all of this is purely experimental and learning, so anything I do that's wrong or inefficient can easily be redone in a matter of minutes.
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:13:26 +0000, you wrote: >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 12:49:25 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote > >As a matter of interest, how did you partition the disk? What >partitioning scheme did you use? > >Also, you might have, I think, written the DVD-1 ISO image to a USB >stick from within Windows. How did you do it? > >I went through the speech synthesis install using the visual prompts >and, when it came to the task selection stage (install >additional software), chose "8 9 11". There was no problem with this. > > >> Frankly, neither can I, and I also can't see why the "install >> additional software" procedure in Step 14 would fail, but it did, and >> there we are. I'll try DVD 1 again now. At least I won't have to go >> through the disk partitioning business again. That part is all done. >> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:29:30 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >> > >> >> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. >> > >> >"Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the installer menu. >> > >> >The only major difference between DVD-1 and the netinst ISO is the first >> >gets packages from the DVD (if there is no mirror) whereas the second >> >will get some of them from the net (a mirror is needed). I cannot see >> >why using a netinst ISO is any better than DVD-1. >> > >> >