Luckily this is a new and a "play around" install, so I can reinstall without
much consequence.
Michael Trausch wrote:
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> I just leave everything as / and then a swap partition. As for
> re-installing... well, I'll have that taken in 30 million years when I can
> get another hard disk large enough to act as a mirror. =)
>
> I am confident that Linux will keep on truckin', so to speak, until I can
> afford that, then, I'll power down the system... and take care of that.
>
> As it is, the last time I actually powered down the system was to clean
> out the insides of the system.... And now, unfortunately, this is my week
> to do the Church bulletin, which means I have to (ugh!) use Word to type
> it and format it. =(
>
> BTW, does anyone know of a Word Proccessor for Linux that will read MS
> Word 97, and MS Works 4.0, and earlier, formatted files? And write them,
> as well? I ask because I want to do this stuff in Linux and just give
> them the disk to print it. Hehehe-- I find a word processor that can do
> that-- and I can reformat /dev/hda1 as an ext2 partition! =)
>
Actually I'm not sure which one but Applix or Star Office was reviewed by Dan
Schaffer and he said that it opened, closed, wrote and saved Office documents
perfectly. Also, I am sure that this is a priority for Corel WordPerfect, so you
can try that too.
Thanks,
Michael
>
> - Mike
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> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Michael Stearne wrote:
> >
> > > Why is it better to partition a disk like / gets some space /usr gets
> > > some /home gets some, etc.?
> > > Why is this better than just one partition at / that gets 100% of the
> > > space and the others take what they need.
> >
> > fsck -- if you have one partition trashed, it is much easier to reinstall
> > the stuff that's in the one partition.
> >
> > > Finally. What is a good partition scheme (from scratch, ignore the
> > > questions above) for a 500MB disk? (32MB of ram, 64MB for swap)
> >
> > For 500 mb, I'd leave it as one partition (for almost anything under a
> > gig, with maybe /home separated).
> >
> > _Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
> > "This is Linux's coming-out party" -- Mark Jarvis of Oracle, in his keynote
> > "This is Linux's coming-out party" -- Linus Torvalds, in his keynote
> > "What, was it gay?" -- Rick Moen, during Linus' keynote
> >
> >
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