Advice on Partitioning ?

[Clark]

Thanks, all your advice on Partitions has been filed until
a) I make the time to do some serious reading and or
b) Wine actually stops freezing Kubuntu and comes with a bit more simple 
language help.

Either way, my 30 plus year old DOS (beginners) command line and MS 
windows will take a lot of educating before I try messing with this 
stuff.  I now have the use of a floppy (through root account only so 
far) and I can access the Writer files of my non root account so I can 
backup with minimal fuss now but the pull down menu that gives me access 
to the floppy just isn't there in the non root acc.

I just wanted it to run Encyclopaedia Britannica and the more I look at 
whats on the web with my DSL 2, and 2 gigs download the more I think 
Windows, Wine and the  above  Encyclopaedia , for me are not really 
necessary.  Who knows I may find an Encyclopaedia for Linux that works 
just as well or better than Britannica.

Cheers,

Clark.