[frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions

  • From: Rick Tribble <rtribble@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:04:37 -0500

Mike, what about the downgrade question?  I would think he should just leave
extra RAM and big hard drives in place.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For better or worse we have been putting everything in the root partition.
> We don't use LVM or encryption.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Germano
> Sent: Feb 16, 2011 12:27 PM
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions
>
> Should '/' and '/home' be separate partitions or are those space
> requirements only if we're running on multiple hard drives? (We can't use
> the Guided partitioner in setup if we want to have them on their own
> partition.) Also harddrive related, we aren't using LVM or encrypting home
> directories, are we?
>
> Tony
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:13:35 -0500
> From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Donation questions
>
> I don't have any problem with you picking up some parts to complete these
> systems.
> The recommended (by me, we have no official spec) minimum specs are:
> # 1 GHz x86 processor
> # 512MB of system memory (RAM)
> # 15 GB of disk space (5 for OS files; 10 for /home directory)
> <snip></snip>
>
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