-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Steve: You're overthinking this. Boot from install media, accept the defaults, install. This works for 99% of the people. Once you've got a bit of familiarity with the system you'll probably want to re-do the installation anyway, no matter what you started with. Keep your old system around until you find you're no longer going back to it for those few things you do that are just too different in GNU/Linux from the way Windows does it. - --Bob, who always considers V1.0 a throwaway. On 2018-04-11 09:58 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
Warm Greetings To GTALUG Members,
This coming weekend (Friday 13 April 2018) I will be building my new desktop PC with the help of my friend who has built quite a few PCs for his employer.
The new PC will be running debian Linux and will soon take over duties from an ancient Dell desktop PC running Windows XP (acquired new in March 2005)..
I will post the final hardware configuration on PCPartPicker once the new PC is operational.
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Meanwhile, I would like to ask GTALUG members please to itake a look at the partitioning configuraiton I am proposing for the 2 TB Western Digital HDD (best to stretch your email client window to defeat word wrap): ==> *** STANDARD LINUX ***
/device partition
==> linux normal boot #1: (current active version of linux os, will be recycled for next version) /dev/sda1 gpt001 ext2 ??? /boot /dev/sda2 gpt002 ext3 50 / (root), /bin, /dev, /etc, /initrd, /lib, sbin
==> linux normal boot #2: (next version of linux os, will become current version) /dev/sda1 gpt003 ext2 ??? /boot /dev/sda2 gpt004 ext3 50 / (root), /bin, /dev, /etc, /initrd, /lib, sbin
==> linux rescue boot: /dev/sda1 gpt005 ext2 ??? /boot /dev/sda2 gpt006 ext3 50 / (root), /bin, /dev, /etc, /initrd, /lib, sbin -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
150 GB + 3X boot
==> linux temporary: /dev/sda3 gpt103 ext4 64 (swap1) /dev/sda4 gpt104 ext4 64 (swap2) /dev/sda5 gpt105 ext4 64 (swap3) /dev/sda6 gpt106 ext4 200 /tmp ------------------------------------------------- 392 GB
==> linux permanent: /dev/sda7 gpt207 ext4 100 /var /dev/sda8 gpt208 ext4 100 /usr
==> linux user permanent: /dev/sda9 gpt309 ext4 100 /usr/local /dev/sda10 gpt310 ext4 100 /home ---------------------------------------------------- 400 GB
==> *** USER-DEFINED ***
/dev/sda51 gpt551..557 ext4 75X7 /!_d ... /!_j (current, clone winxp partition structure, allow for growth) /dev/sda52 gpt599 ext4 70 /!~dell (WinXP archive C..J: ../winxp_c .. ../winxp_j (WinXP archive C..J)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
595 GB
==> other operating systems: /dev/sda61 gpt661 ext4 ??? /._win7 virtualized windows 7 /dev/sda62 gpt662 ext4 ??? /._win7_1 /dev/sda63 gpt663 ext4 ??? /._dfly virtualized dragonflybsd /dev/sda64 gpt664 ext4 ??? /._dfly_1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
??? GB
==> ssd partitions: /dev/sda71 gpt771 ext4 -- /.~ssd01 (ssd partition) | total ssd /dev/sda72 gpt772 ext4 -- /.~ssd02 (ssd partition) | capacity /dev/sda73 gpt773 ext4 -- /.~ssd03 (ssd partition) | 256 GB --------- --------- ---- ----- ----------------------------------------------- N/A GB
==> allocated: 1537 GB (+ 3x boot) ==> unallocated: + 463 GB (- 3x boot) --------- --------- ---- ----- ----------------------------------------------- ==> Total HDD Capacity: 2000 GB Note 1: Please be aware that I am a complete Linux newbie but with a software engineering background.
Note 2: Hoping to be able to swap back and forth between an "active" version of Linux and the "next" version of Linux, by switching the roles of partitions (gpt001, gpt002) <==> (gpt003,gpt004) .
Note 3: Please be aware that I intend to maintain most of my user-related content in the seven (7) partitions gpt551..gpt557
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Comments, criticisms, questions welcome.
Best Regards,
Steve
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