Re: Linux Loaded on 486...what now

Or you can use Partition Magic or Partition-It to re-size the partitions.
Partition Magic works with Linux, I'm not sure about the other.

Marshall Pharoah
Software Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Proctor <proctor@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux Loaded on 486...what now

>From: Fred Proctor <proctor@...>
>
>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
>
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