SnapafunFrank wrote:
By the way, this laptop ( sorry ~ Notepad ) has the Turion64 - MT34 cpu.
Any use looking at 64bit at this stage ?
It's certainly an option, but IIRC only the kernel and a few of the
programs would be 64 bit at this point while the majority are still 32 bit.
In any case, 64 bit stuff is coming out everyday, but it will probably
still be a while before there's a full 64 bit version of every standard
Linux app.
As for Diskdrake in PCLinuxOS, it can set up the normal partitions that
you want (although, IIRC, it doesn't have a separate /usr partition
showing in the installer) and there's a lot of great help regarding
multi-booting, you'll still need to install Windows (IF you really think
you want it) first, and then add the Linuxes (Linuxi?) of your choice i
whatever order you want.
The PCLinuxOS forum is loaded with people who've got several OS's on
their systems and the developers are always providing good support. Look
for the users 'texstar' and 'ikerekes' when looking for top-level
answers for your support questions.
Also, keep in mind that once it's installed, you can modify the
partitions like an interior designer on steroids. I always set up an
'/Archive' partition (with a capital 'A' so that it's right at the top
of the list in Konqueror), on all my systems (including those of my
clients) and I keep a local set of configs, rpms and their personal data
there, just in case someone seriously borks the main folders or partitions.
Either way, I add those after the install is done. Going one step
further, I often create user-owned folders in /Archive and put their
documents and email (thunderbird) profiles in there.
That way, if they're going to dual-boot with Windows and the /Archive
partition is formatted using FAT32, they can use the same documents and
emails regardless of the OS they're running at the time.
Occasionally, I have to have the custom partitions mounted after the
bootup sequence (fstab can be cranky sometimes), so I usually add them
to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file like this;
mount /dev/hdaX /Archive
Where the 'X' is the partition device number and then it automatically
gets mounted without causing fstab to go postal.
Hope some of this info comes in handy Snap. Have fun 'playing'!
DL
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