[Sussex] Hello!

[Geoff Teale]

Ciaran wrote:
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> Hi all,

Hi there.. 

> Ive been lurking on this list for a week or so now and it looks
> interesting, so I think I'll introduce myself. :D

A good plan - I see a lot of subscription notification but not that many
introductions.  If you've never posted, just say "hi" - currently there are
a small group of us who dominate the list  - if you want to get something
out of this list then aska a question or propose something!

> I'm Ciaran Hamilton. I'm a 20 year old male who lives in East 
> Grinstead.

Welcome Ciaran, another East Grinsteadian.. we have a respectable number of
Linux geeks in East Grinstead now..  If you need a lift to/from LUG meets
(the next one is Thursday) then give Dominic or I a shout as we will be
travelling down from EG.
 
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>Any ideas on a good partitioning strategy, 
> given that my
> computer has 256MB of RAM?

For simplicity I'd go with:

Somewhat less than 1GB for swap.
Around 100MB for /boot (you can get by with less, but you might want several
kernels)
Everything else as /

..You can get away without a seperate /boot partition but it's nice to leave
it seperate and unmounted incase you get drunk one night and forget and
mistype `rm -rf /root` :)

> I hope to see you guys some time. :D

Come along to a meet...

-- 
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of
course, in a state of sin.
-- J. von Neumann


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