[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

Garry Stahl tesral at wowway.com
Mon Jul 21 00:45:47 EDT 2014


On 07/17/2014 11:23 PM, Harry Burleson wrote:
> As an alternative, after a successful installation on disk #1, you can 
> use a live distro: Pmagic, Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc. Then with Gparted 
> move the /home partition to disk #2 and edit /etc/fstab .


That should not be necessary.  I have installed /root and /home on 
separate drives since I started using Linux.  It is my preferred 
instillation method.


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