[QCLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Robert Jones]

Culley Smith wrote:
> You might get different suggestions on this.  I set up usually about a 
> gig for swap.  I guess I could have put /home on a separate partition, 
> but I never have.  I'd say you wouldn't need much more than 10 GB for 
> the OS.  You can get by with less, too, if you're not planning to 
> install a lot of additional software. 
It sounds like my 23 GB isn't to far off then. I will do some graphics 
and maybe work on photos and my web page
> I've been testing Kubuntu (7.10) as well and I just don't like it as 
> much as the Gnome desktop.  After two weeks with Kubuntu, I ended up 
> booting back into Gnome.  I    (Snip)    Don't mind working with 
> apt-get from the command line, but... who knows.  Hopefully there will 
> be some improvements in 8.04.
If you didn't like KDE in 7.10 you will hate KDE4. I can't find anything 
in it. It is totally different and I had so much problems I started 
booting into the KDE instead of KDE4.
>
> I hear you on VirtualBox.  I was going to use it for a number of 
> tasks, but the mouse was extremely buggy for me.  So, I'll just 
> dual-boot if I need to.
That's about what I have decided to do. I can't get Garmin MapSource to 
work in CrossOverLinux and it seems everyone is having the same problem. 
VirtualBox installs Windows XP fine (had to install it before Vista) but 
Vista won't install because it isn't where it should be or something. 
Who know about Vista. But I didn't care for VB anyway so I'll just dual 
boot. Only problem is that Vista demands so much hard drive space.

Thanks for the information.
Bob Jones