Advice on Partitioning ?

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Monday 14 January 2008 04:44:39 am Bill Vance wrote:
> On Sun Jan 13 20:12:54 2008 Clark wrote:
> >Can someone suggest a good place to start reading up on the subject of
> >Partitioning and if possible the software used and where to get it.
> >Wine is way too exotic for me at this stage.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Clark.
> >
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> > exotic for me at this stage.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Clark.
>
> If you're dealling with kubuntu 7.04, hang it up;  It's completely
> incapable of dealling with anything more complicated than a, "swap",
> partition, and a single, "/", partition, which contains everything.  _ANY_
> attempt to create more partitions, using any of the available file systems,
> simply generates a bazillion arcane mounting errors on bootup.  Sometimes
> you can get past these, but they'll still bite you in the butt when you try
> to install software, or do anything else complex.
>
> Bill
>

That's funny, the partitioning Scheme I recommended I have used on every 
desktop I have setup for years.  going back to 6.06 in Kubuntu, and SuSE 8 - 
10, etc.  I've never encountered problems like those.  

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