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[James Sumners]

On one hard drive? That is excessive. I can see using that scheme with
multiple hard drives, but not with a single 40GB drive. Especially for
a desktop machine.

On 5/16/06, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> All depends on what you're doing with it. Do you plan on dual booting
> Windoze/Xandros? If you're saying bye bye to the beast (M$ Windoze),
> then I would recommend at least a /boot partition and the rest for all
> of it. Of course you will want a partition for a swap file. You could
> just make 1 partition and as you got more comfortable "playing around
> with Linux, you can always change to a more sophisticated scheme. I
> myself prefer, /boot, swap, /, /var at the very least.
>
> Scott Castaline
>
> Hey, I was born confused, what's your excuse?
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:22 -0400, Billy049 wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have always been a Windows user but recently decided to finally try
> > Linux.  Xandros was recommended as being easy and similar Windows.  The
> > CD should arrive any day now.
> >
> > I plan to install it exclusively on a 1ghz Altheon machine with a 40 gig
> > hard drive with NTFS.  I understand that will not be a problem to Xandros.
> >
> > My first question is should I leave the drive as a single 40 gig
> > partition?  Any other Xandros advice is appreciated.
> >
> > Bill Grubbs
> > Atlanta
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