Re: Moving apps to new drive

Walter Mautner wrote: 
Randy Day wrote:


Well, after much kicking and screaming, I've got
a working Linux box. I finally got Ubuntu to
install, which ironically is causing my new problem.

I had intended to have an 850meg drive as an OS/swap 


WOOOW. I guess you can make a fortune on ebay with such drives still in good
condition. There are a lot of legacy laboratory/industrial/whatever systems
still running ISA mainboards which won't recognize the $bigdisks you can
get nowadays :).


As I mentioned in another post, this is a learning
box, built from pieces laying around and picked up
locally; it's a 'frankenputer' from the word go...



drive, and a larger drive for apps & data. I ran the
install with only one drive, not realizing Ubuntu
would (try to) install *everything* on the drive
without asking.

Now I have a small drive, completely full, and a big,
empty drive.


But then, you notice it's "a tad" slow, do you? 

Since it's a P200 to begin with, "slow" is a relative
term in this case!  :)

Someone else explained about putting /usr and /home
in separate partitions on the big drive, so it
installs much closer to what I had planned...



How difficult is it to shift all the non-OS stuff to
the big drive? How do you tell what's what?


While a 2nd drive (on the other ide cable) as swap is a good idea, it won't
give you any speed gain when using such an outdated (no-dma, low-rpm,
high-latency-heavy-heads) drive.


Speed isn't a requirement for this beast; it just
needs to show me the basics of Linux & scripting.
At some point, I might set it up as a print server,
mail server, small-database server or some other
low-intensity application.

For now, though, I just need to make Gnome go away
at the end of the install! You wanna talk about
*slow*? Especially since the install doesn't
recognize my mouse!  Grrrr!

At least when the installs were breaking, I got the
nice (learning-enhancing) command line.

/rant
.

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