Croombe F. Pensom wrote: > One tip, though (and this probably applies to any distro) try to keep > your /home on a separate drive if at all possible (hard drives are so > cheap these days anyway) or at least on a completely separate partition. > In this way, you can hang on to all your files and settings without > having to run through "preferences" again and again! During the install > you merely tell the install GUI to do "custom" partitioning and then you > indicate that you want /home left as is -- doing this ensures that your > files stay put and that the partition doesn't get formatted. I don't see any advantage in having /home on a separate drive, as opposed to a separate partition (which I would always do). But if you do have a second drive, or a lot of space on your first drive, it seems to me well worth while installing the new version of FC on a new partition, while keeping the old FC. That way you can run the old FC while ironing out any problems with the new one. (I always keep /boot on a separate partition, so I can boot either FC.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
