Hi again Alan,
> necessary to replace the disks.
Not for k/ubuntu - there's stacks of freebies around.
> Yes there is at least 50Gb free at the top end of the HDD.
Great! I'd be making 4 x 12.5GB or 5 x 10GB partitions out of that.
500MB for Swap should be heaps. With 512MB RAM, I've never reached 100MB
of Swap-space use on a standard desktop, or even 50. It would be good to
hear other people's 'standard range' settings & results though.
It used to be a 'twice as much Swap as RAM' rule, but RAM's gotten
cheaper now and it might be just servers and graphics intensive use that
need large Swap.
> It is not an unmovable block as such, they seem to be green on the
> defragmenter screen and th emain ones are blue which this block is,
> only it seems to be maybe about 10Gb away from the main storage, but
> the defrag doesnt seem to want to try and move it down with the rest,
> so I guess it will have to stay there.
Like Chris said - the Windows Swap-gap is probably what you see there.
It's always like that on C: drives now - painful to fathom.
Some more context..
Robert Fisher wrote:
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 7:44 pm, Alan wrote:
altho the friend in the States who sent me the
disks also sed that he thought Mepis was a good one.
I swear by Mepis for the following reasons:-
-It has, according to me and Google, a very good hardware detection.
That's a plus, especially for your modem - we'd like to know if it's
auto-detected & set up to run.
-It uses KDE by default - meaning it is an easier transition for ex windows
users.
Some choose Linux to be far away from Windows (& nearer MacOS perhaps),
and others still want to be Win-near & 'familiar' (tho it's not really).
This roughly summarises the Gnome / KDE choice.
-There are some very able list members using Mepis and able to give you help.
Nothing unique there, but true.
-Mepis has several multimedia packages installed by default (which Ubuntu
cannot boast)
This is where the 'sales ethic' of the distro brands differ.
What do I need to do to get a copy of these please??
I can burn you a CD. I am in Parklands but do get around town so may be able
to drop it off. (Let me know off list if you like)
Your choice thus steps up to a higher level of complexity:
KDE desktop + Redhat Package Management (RPMs) = SuSE (+ GNOME option)
GNOME desktop + Debian Packages (.DEBs) = Ubuntu (all "Free Software")
KDE desktop + Debian Packages (from Ubuntu) = Kubuntu / Mepis (+ extras)
And whatever system works best for/with you is what fits correctly.
- Plenty of support all round.
Good luck, & yell out if you want a free disk,
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