<br><tt><font size=2>> To: "Tim Moody" <timmoody@sympatico.ca></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> In general a little more flexibility for people
who are testing would be <br>
> nice including, while I'm at it, the ability to partition the machine
during <br>
> the install.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>> From: John Watlington <wad@laptop.org></font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> Disks are cheap. Why wouldn't we want
testers all using the same<br>
> partition layout ? The current partition layout can be critized
and<br>
> changed, but preserving sanity is easier with a common partitioning<br>
> scheme across the XS servers.<br>
<br>
> BTW, that is a one line change in the kickstart file --- you can <br>
> trivially build your own school server image that lets you manually
set <br>
> partitions...</font></tt>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">At IBM we outlawed the phrase "It's
a piece of cake" by our more senior sotware engineers, as what is
easy for them, may not be so obvious for others with less experience.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I agree that the basic partitioning
scheme is fine: 100MB for /boot, 8G for / root, and the rest as LVM
space for swap and /library.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For those interested in customized partitions,
see my instructions here:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Tony Pearson</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony</font>