bassbrnr
03-06-2003, 03:36 PM
I just tried out Knoppix for the first time and I love it. It detected all of my hardware except for the soundcard on my laptop which was alleviated by a simple modprobe.
I'm planning to try out a HD install on my laptop which has a 20G drive.
I've read that when you upgrade to a newer version of Knoppix it wipes out the old install. I have no problem with having to tweak my stuff back to where I want it after an upgrade, but I was wondering if there were any recommendations for how to partition the hard drive to minimize this.
Here's an example of what I've done in the past:
hda1 /boot 150MB
hda2 <swap> 512MB
hda3 / 600MB
hda5 /home 512MB
hda6 /usr 1024MB
hda7 /var 512MB
hda8 /opt 1024MB
My machines are for web development purposes as well so I would like to keep the config files around for Apache after the upgrade as well. Should I create another partition for /etc? Whould this get wiped by an upgrade?
I then usually have my data area on another partition which I mount as /home/myusername
Thanks,
Andy
I'm planning to try out a HD install on my laptop which has a 20G drive.
I've read that when you upgrade to a newer version of Knoppix it wipes out the old install. I have no problem with having to tweak my stuff back to where I want it after an upgrade, but I was wondering if there were any recommendations for how to partition the hard drive to minimize this.
Here's an example of what I've done in the past:
hda1 /boot 150MB
hda2 <swap> 512MB
hda3 / 600MB
hda5 /home 512MB
hda6 /usr 1024MB
hda7 /var 512MB
hda8 /opt 1024MB
My machines are for web development purposes as well so I would like to keep the config files around for Apache after the upgrade as well. Should I create another partition for /etc? Whould this get wiped by an upgrade?
I then usually have my data area on another partition which I mount as /home/myusername
Thanks,
Andy