YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Mark Walker]

I'd be happy just to get it to install.

> 
> You can get by fine with swap and / (root). It's a breeze to install
> additional drives and switch mount points over to those drives once you
> get the installation going. Keep in mind that anything that taxes drive
> performance won't be great with a single partition and e2fsck will take
> longer to puzzle out problems with a single partition, but you can do it
> fine.
> 
> In fact, unless you have a really nice drive, the gains from setting up
> separate partitions are nowhere near the gains from splitting mount points
> over multiple drives (at least on SCSI), so you'll wind up with a zippier
> system anyway if you take this route.
> 
> You might also want, when you have some time, to read up a little on how
> Linux handles mount points, so you can get yourself thinking more 'nixy
> about drives and mounts.
> 
> Short answer: yes, no problem. Probably better to do it that way if you
> have a small drive: you can always add/expand drives later.
> 
> - n
> 
>> Do you need a home partition?  Or can you exist with just a root.
>> I've tired with adjusting the partition sizes with no success.
> 
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