Monday 05 Sep 2005 04:14 samaye Langsley alekhiit:

> Hi all.

Hello. It would have been easier to get to reading your post if you had 
trimmed out mine to which you replied! :)

>  This is my first post to this list. I'm currently running
> SUSE 9.3. This is my first experience with SUSE 

Welcome to SuSE! I've *tried* Mandrake and Red Hat. Neither was comfortable. 
With SuSE I'm home and dry! :) [Did I get the Inglish idiom right?]

> My real reason for responding though is to say that I believe
> that it is imperative that we aim all installation
> instructions and programs directly at the beginner. That
> doesn't mean that an expert or some such alternative can't
> be offered, only that the basic install must be aimed at the
> complete novice.

Hear hear. This is already done to a great extent, however.

> plan -2 (swap / boot /root /home each on its own partition

On this list or SLE somebody was recently saying that having /boot on its own 
partition causes problems while upgrading.

> that an easily selected option be offered.  IE swap size
> should be: 512M (OK) 1G (OK) or 2G.(OK) or some such.

Yeah, a nice round number should be OK. I've given 2 * 1G swaps.

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