[linux-help] Re: CLOS NEWBIE

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

swap,/,/home partitions work very well, because you can format the
/ partition and install a different Linux distribution with out
loseing your scource(C,Perl,scripts). A subdirectory under /home
(/home/software) for storing source you have gotten off the 'net 
allows you to rebuild /usr/src after you have updated/changed the 
/ partition. 
John Phillips


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, mbachman wrote:

> Jeremy King wrote:
> > 
> > From: "mbachman" <mbachman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > YEP, I thought Corel Linux was going to be the answer. So far all I can
> > > do is email and that seems to be going badly. The list is long, STARTING
> > > WITH ALL COREL APPLICATIONS HAVING FATAL ERRORS and me not having a fix.
> > 
> > By "all corel applications", I assume that you are refering to Corel
> > Wordperfect, Quattro, etc.  If that is the case, I had similar problems with
> > the office suite.  It seems that WP Office absolutely requires that your
> > printer software be installed ("lp" must be installed, but you don't need to
> > configure a printer), or the applications will crash and burn.  They don't
> > even bother to mention why they break.  If you aren't refering specifically
> > to Wordperfect Office apps--or if this isn't the problem, you'll need to
> > tell us which applications, and give some details regarding how they die
> > (error messages, etc).
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
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>       Dear Jeremy Thanks for the help! Yes they are the WPOffice Suite apps,
> and I didn't select a printer because mine wasn't there. I have finally
> gotten some help at the corellinux.support newsgroup which is promising.
> currently I am experimenting with backing up the few files and the
> address book(s) we worked on. Now I am trying to find the instructions
> for partitioning my drive into /, /home and /swap, and then reinstalling
> in an effort to regain use of the aforementioned .  The advice is that
> this will be a sort of virtual backup in case of system problems. Have
> you heard of this? http://tmp2.complete.org/cgi-bin/listargate-aclug.cgi
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