Disk partitioning and swap

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JF{> I had recently recommended Linux to a friend in upstate New
 JF{> York. He got Red Hat 5.2. Red Hat uses Disk Druid as its
 JF{> primary partitioning tool. He found it very confusing, even
 JF{> after I told him to make 1 large partition. When dealing
 JF{> with non-technical people, the installations should be set
 JF{> up simplisticly. 

I've never been able to figure out Disk Druid, either, and I don't consider
myself a novice.  When the guys writing the device drivers can't operate the
partitioning tool, there's something wrong.  When I have had to install Red
Hat, and it's not my personal preference, I have had to drop out to a shell and
use fdisk to get what I wanted.  It simply was not worth the effort to bang my
head against the wall learning Disk Druid.

 JF{> I also have installed Debian 2.0 (I have 2.1, but have not
 JF{> yet installed it). 
 JF{> Debian 2.0 is not for novices. It is a very thorough
 JF{> release, but one needs to know what one is doing. even if
 JF{> you are using one of their canned release profiles. 

Debian 2.1 is not significantly different from 2.0 in the installation
procedure.  While Debian's installation front-end is not very friendly, almost
anyone should be able to get a reasonable result by taking all of the defaults.
 
-- Mike


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