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On 08 Nov 2003 19:36:13 +0200 |
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Andrew Cooks <acooks@××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> All of these things are true. The drives should be binned and yes |
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> /var/tmp and swap are particularly bad uses for slow drives. I also |
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> think it doesn't matter much on a 100MHz Pentium and that it's |
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> easier to recover from loosing /tmp and swap than to loose say, |
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> /home or /usr. |
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/usr shouldn't be that difficult to recover, and it shouldn't change |
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too much over time. Just make a tar ball once everything seems stable. |
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If you're not planning to install the whole hell... maybe you've some |
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chance to place everything in 1 CD. |
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BTW since Gentoo require a *lot* of time to be built (expecially on |
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old boxes) what are your strategies for backup? |
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I was thinking to try again Gentoo (yes I'm an humble ex user lurking) |
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and I thought that if I found it more stable than last time I tried it |
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would be nice not only to have a way to make a backup, but to use |
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Gentoo as a framework to built up a binary distro to install Gentoo on |
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other boxes without the need to recompile everything from scratch and |
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without having one BIG personalized stage3. |
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