-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitioning
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 02:07:29 -0400
Don has been working at this for quite a while now, so his 'needs' are
further advanced that anything you should be shooting for. Knowing what I
know about both of your situations gives me the ability to know just how
much different your needs are, but I completely understand that may not be
enough make you feel a whole lot better. lol
As I see your situation, you only want/need to set up a dual boot that keeps
as much of your personal data away from the OS drives. You have many
options ahead of you as you plan your approach, but the actual steps you
take to create this masterpiece are not difficult. I promise you that. Don
is a calculating, but slightly reckless, maverick (one of the many things I
really like about him, I assure you). However, you are currently new to
this approach and will want to approach things a lot more cautiously (you
can earn your maverick stripes later, if you're so inclined lol). I
already have a relatively strong mental image of how your system will be set
up, but the final design (simple, complicated or anything in between) needs
to be created/owned by you.
The trick then is to figure out exactly what YOU want to do with these
options as opposed to whatever you see someone else do with them. Don said
that he sent you at least one of my earlier tutorials on all of this stuff.
Read through it several times (leave a day or more in between to clear out
the fog it causes) and take notes each time you do. Toss out the things for
which you believe you have no use. Ask about the things that remain that
aren't perfectly clear. I don't care if you ask me to expand on every
sentence I wrote. From my perspective, the most important thing for you to
learn is the WHY part of each idea included in the tutorial. Once you
understand the 'WHY' for doing something, you'll be in a position to choose
whether to include it in your plan. Some of the answers may be revealed to
you by just watching my discussions with Don (or anyone else who asks), but
that won't give you everything you need to make intelligent, informed
decisions about how to best approach your own system. Too little
modification may severely limit what you're able to do with your eventual
setup. Too much may turn out to be too confusing to use intuitively. My
focus is solely to help you design a setup that gives you ultimate freedom
for usability along with as much expandability as possible for future
growth.
Peace,
Gman
http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "tempting2taanzaa" <tempting2taanzaa@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:26 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partitioning
> Just looking at all the work you've done is really scaring the heck out of
> me.
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