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Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook


From: Christopher Rawnsley <rawprawns@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:48:24 +0000

On 15 Jan 2009, at 01:22, Christopher Rawnsley wrote:
... I tried a 'make img release' ...

Just in case any one else falls in to this trap, Michael Neumann pointed out that it should be 'make img installer release' for the installer.


I managed a manual install for now. I thought I'd run the disc layout past the lists as I would like to see what the consensus is:
* My netbook has two flash drives internal to it. One is a ( fast ) 3.8GB and the other is a ( slower ) 7.7GB.
* From what I have read, swap partitions on flash drives is bad news as it reduces the life of the disc.
* Space is limited so I am thinking that having fewer partitions is a good idea.


Using a pseudo disklabel structure my drive layout looks like:

# Drive     Mount   Offset  Size           FS Type
 ad2s1a         /        0     *   UFS
 ad3s1g     /home        0     *   UFS+Softupdates

where ad2 is the smaller but faster drive and ad3 the slower but bigger one.

So my question is, could this drive structure be better?

--
Chris



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