Re: Linux Loaded on 486...what now

Linux folks,

Regarding the Workstation v. Custom install in Red Hat Linux 5.2, the
Workstation sounds a lot easier and Tim Goldstein has a script that you
can run afterward that does a lot of the configuration for you.

The main difference is that the Workstation install does your
partitioning for you. The advantage of splitting the disk into several
partitions instead of one big one is that it makes backups, restores,
and formats easier. Sysadmins could format, say, the OS partition and do
a clean install of a new OS revision, while the user directory partition
remained untouched. Or, you could specify that you only wanted to back
up the user directory partition, and none of the OS files would be
backed up.

The disadvantage is that their sizes are static. If user files
proliferate and take up all their partition, unused space on another
partition won't automatically be used. You can play tricks like moving
some user directories onto another partition, but this is not very
clean.

--Fred