[tlinux-users:07498] Re: Anyone having any luck with....

> Second, anything more than 512 MB for the swap partition is overkill and
> would not be used.


except for servers which are planning to be test grounds for, for example
UML or VM networks or are planning to run a lot of services (and it would
have to be a lot a lot), which are different from laptops anyways...

/ and Home should be primary partitions and the rest either logical or
> extended. If you are going to be running a server of some sort, I'd put
> it in /var and make that primary as well.


for gamers /opt is another one to put space into, and i've been making a
symlink in / for opt and pointing it to /usr/opt, also not a gamer, so my
usr is not large

The idea behind partitioning for a lot of people is that if they decide
> to move to another distro ore for some other reason they need to
> re-install, they can leave /home intact and just format the other
> partitions.(this preserves your data)


no, no, the idea behind partitioning off some system folders lies solely in
efficiency of the system and its security, however, i admit, partitions do
come in handy when you want to switch distros.

Your machine has an Atheros wireless card so you will have to use
> ndiswrapper to get it to work since there aren't any native linux
> drivers for these cards as yet.


there is a gazillion of them out there, unless it's a really new chipset, i
dont think you should have any problems, madwifi drivers are awesome... I
run an internal Atheros AR5211, no problems, no ndiswrapper, my friend ran a
PCMCIA Dlink DWL G650+ which is another Atheros chipset card, once again, no
ndiswrapper, just madwifi, worked beautifully till he had to give the card
back...