[Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE

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I have recently descovered another reason (besides multiple OS's) to have 
two or more (instead of one) drives, one for the OS and programs and the 
other mainly for data.  It's not a situation most of you are apt to encounter 
but I have currently some 35+ GB (and growing) of scanned manuals and 
photographs on our main machine.  And a sizable subset on my laptop for use away 
from home.  I back up some of the drives on our three machines to an NAS drive 
separate from any of the computers.  I don't know how many unique ways to 
back up drives one might define but two could be called drive imaging and 
straight file copy.  For reasons I won't take the space to define, the first is 
or may be generally better or best for an OS drive and the second (if you 
add the capability to not re-copy files that have not changed) is more 
efficient (quicker after the initial copy is made) for data drives if the data is 
in many relatively small files (such as TIF, PDF or JPG).  So I am currently 
sorry that I did not partition the one drive in my laptop last time I 
reinstalled everthing..  

In a message dated 5/31/2010 1:17:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
lmoline at hotmail.com writes: 
> Gene,
> 
> I see no reason to make more than 1 partition unless you have 2 different 
> operating systems to boot from..
> 
> 
> Loren   WA7SKT
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> >From: erastber at tampabay.rr.com
> >To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net; kc8cpw at gmail.com
> >Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:13:51 -0400
> >Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE
> >
> >I was able to get SeaMonkey installed on the laptop.
> >
> >However, the question remains is about the partitions on the HDD:
> >
> >Do I make one large partition or one small and the other with the rest of 
> 
> >the space?
> >
> >If I should use two partitions, what sizes should they be?
> >
> >TIA es 73
> >Gene, WØQFC
> >Spring Hill FL
> >Lafayette Lodge #91 A.F. &A.M. 
> >

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