At 04-02-2001 -0500, you wrote:
>One of my old hard drives has some bad sectors. (I know from previous
>Windows work.) If I use this hard drive for /home or swap, will Linux care?
Yes, very likely. I try to install Linux on an old drive with bad sectors
and almost blow my top; Suggest scan your drive so that bad sectors
are marked out. During install, linux will also ask to format drive and
check for bad sectors. Good Luck.
>Does it just avoid these sectors? Or am I in for corrupted files and lost
>data?
>Rootbus
