[ale] First post

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 18:36, James Sumners wrote:
> | If you don't care about the data on the hard drive, I recommend
> | letting the Xandros installer suggest a partition scheme. It will
> | either recommend a single swap partition and an all encompassing
> | partition or a swap partition, a root partition, and a home directory
> | partition. The second option is nice if you intend to move on to
> | another distribution some day and don't want to have to move all of
> | your personal files around.
> 
> On my FC installs I have made the mistake of creating at install time
> a /swap partition that is 512 mgb.  That is not big enough!  Apparently
> Mozilla downloads anything and everything first to the /swap partition
> and _then_ moves it to where-ever you thought the file was being stored.
> So downloads of CD images fail.  Took me the longest time to figure out
> what was going on. I would suggest making the /swap partition large
> enough to handle any file that would fill up a DVD.

Woah there, you're suggesting a 7gig swap???   I don't think that's at 
all necessary.  I don't believe that what you think Mozilla was doing 
was actually happening.  More likely, it was downloading to /tmp and 
moving it once the download was complete.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little
security will deserve neither and lose both.  - Benjamin Franklin