[LBo] uninstall OS

[David Roseman]

I am looking to test out an OS for a basic PC, which I don't have my hands on yet, which is going to be a mailserver for my network.  I don't think that it would be powerful enough to run a Live CD.

And secondly, I am a tinkerer, and I want to know how the partitions and disk structures work in more detail.

So if I set up a partition, say /dev/hdb3, then make a filesystem there for my test install, I would then just delete /dev/hdb3 when i am done with it?  Would I need a second swap partition?

Taking your point about keeping data and OS separate, is that just a case of separating out /home to another partition?

Thanks
Dave 

>If you store your data on a different partition than the system, it
>allows you to remove the system and keep your data. It doesn't have to
>be intermingled like Windows (in particular how the registry works) and
>you can actually keep different things separated.

>This begs the question of whether you are looking for something more
>than the LiveCD's can give you. Usually, you can tell alot just from them.






 
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