Advice on Partitioning ?

[Bill Vance]

On Mon Jan 14 03:37:03 2008 Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

>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.

Neither have I.  With three versions of Caldera, and one of SUSE, all had their
little issues, but _nothing_ approaching the crap I went through trying to get
a decent install with Kubuntu.  It simply couldn't deal with the pre-existing
Reiserfs partitions left over from SUSE.  After numerous attempts, I gave each
of the other fs's a bunch of tries, as well, and no go.  I blew them all out,
re-partitioned from scratch, and after many more attempts with each, I finally
gave up and did it as described above.  Attempts to follow advice from the list
either didn't work, or made things worse.  I'm _still_ browned off about the
experience.  What exists now is _mostly_ functional, but it doesn't help a bit,
that several packages I wanted to get into are now on the, "broken", list.

I may yet decide the agravation isn't worth it, and go back to SUSE.

Bill


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