On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Tim wrote:
ulrich:
I think it's a good idea to have the systems XP und FC on different
drives.
Timothy Murphy:
Why?
What difference does it make?
[...]
In my view it was silly advice,
since it might lead a Linux newbie to suppose that there is some advantage
in getting a second disk,
which in my opinion is completely unnecessary.
There are enough problems installing Fedora
without inventing imaginary ones.
The main reason I see for getting a second drive for Linux is so that you
don't have to repartition an already-partitioned Win drive. No need to
shrink partitions to recover space that is already allocated, no need to
run the risk of messing up a partition table. I don't think there's any
operational advantage, but it can make setup easier rather than harder.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
