>> When the system swaps (because the main memory is all used), it becomes
close to unusable and I doubt you will have the patience to run a desktop
system that uses 5-6 GB of swap.
>> You can use your /home partition when you install another OS, just tell
the partition manager to mount it as /home (don't format).
Laptop or desktop doesn't matter. And the size of swap doesn't matter as long
as you don't run out of memory+swap.
The access times for disk (swap) are an order of magnitude slower than
memory. Just like how the access to the various L caches the CPU uses are
again an order of magnitude
I don't know why you expect that to happen, and it doesn't. There's nothing
about the installation of a program that causes existing config directories
to be erased like that. Such behavior would be potentially annoying and
completely pointless, not to mention needlessly difficult to
Yes, but the other distros must *have* access to a /home directory- and if you
direct them all to use the same /home, then as soon as another distro installs
a copy of the same program (such as utilities and programs common to all GNU
distributions) the configuration files will be overwritten.
It
1) Yes
2) Yes if u didn't messed up the discs
3) Check your wireless card if it has one and if you'll use it. Also wireless
mouse and keyboard if exists.
4)First, if you're going to Suspend-2-Disk, you need a swap of the same
amount of your total RAM; if you won't S2D then don't make a swap
No. That commands retieves the configuration of the OS not the CPU. The
command to know if it is 32 or 64 instruction set is:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 64
If it is, then you'll get an output of 2 lines or more (always paired; 2, 4,
6) depending on cores and threads.
You can put the output
Won't the config files in /home be overwritten as soon as a second distro is
installed?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
If you tell the distros not to format /home it should be ok.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWAXSXAAoJEPDWzxLwi2tANJcH/ieGN6wrHZXm4Ft8Sh54DON5
Bx0fx3ibQIG2zJx21d2MWuMIPvAk1aq3Qmrq8Lz++OMflp8K3qSItyUXYnni2i0t
I now have 2 HDDs for this machine to play around with. One 80GiB the other
300GiB. As previously mentioned I would like to try other free distros. Would
it make sense to install these on separate partitions on the 80GiB drive and
use the larger drive as my /home. My thinking/wish is that
One potential problem with that setup is different distros use different
versions of packages. They might have difficulties reading the config files
from each others.
Probably not a big problem but something to keep in mind in case of trouble.
Thanks for the forum link - I'll check it out in greater detail when I've the
machine up and running. Thanks too for your input on my other queries. In
terms of the size of partitions I was basing it on my other machine. Perhaps,
you can explain the differences between the attached
I too had an output of 64 with that command. Thanks too for your input on
partitioning.
Hi,
I've come into possession of an old Intel Pentium 4 (HT) HP desktop machine -
a colleague at work was upgrading some of our machines and this machine was
destined for recycling and he was happy (and generous) for me to take it
home. The previous OS which I believe was XP was completely
re (2)
I tried this from a terminal:
$ getconf LONG_BIT
64
re (4)
I'm new to Trisquel myself, I have only a / partition of 20 GB and a /home
partition of about 108 GB plus about a 4 GB swap, about as simple as it can
be done. I have installed apache2 web server, mariaDB database server and a
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