Y'all are a lot of help.
I'm too stupid to run Windows, much less Linux, much less Slack. I did some more reading a few hours ago and was all set to go '80GB/DVD+20GB/CDRW' when I realized my cables were too short (or my case too big) and didn't feel like getting new cables, so I just did '80GB/20GB+DVD/CDRW' - just shifted hda to hdb and stuck the new one in. I think I'm going to stick the 15GB in my Celeron. I also didn't feel like backing up *everything* so I installed Slack to hda and was going to copy some stuff back over after that, but I fscked up my backups. So there I am, running with the case open with one unhooked hdb and a temporarily jacked in 15GB drive, busily 'cp -aR'ing stuff over. Hoping I don't short circuit crap with a (physically) unmounted hard drive humming along. I seem to have missed some stuff, too. Maybe some symlinks - I had to change a bunch, because /home was a symlink to /usr/local/home and now it's a regular /home again. So stuff like xmms seem confused. mpg321 (and hopefully ogg123) are okay, though. Ah well. The drives are recognized, Slack's installed, I'm on the net with mozilla and all my bookmarks and mail and all my crap and I'm able to post this. Guess I can't complain. Oh, and I edited Slack's lilo.conf and Debian's fstab and Debian booted and I played a game of pinball in W2K
, which happily boots from hdb. Didn't spend enough time in Debian to see if everything was good, but it seemed fine.
*Now* will someone tell me how should have done this *intelligently*?
Oh - bonus about the fresh install - no KDE or Gnome on Slack. Just fluxbox and twm. I went ahead and installed it last time but forgot which was what so didn't want to uninstall them for fear of taking out key libraries - this time, I just said 'gimme the libs, hold the desktop'.
Second 'oh' - I'm getting in the ballpark of
Code:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.39 seconds = 46.04 MB/sec
Sometimes higher, sometimes lower. I searched for stats but didn't see anything specific. Does this sound reasonable, great, sucks? Things seem pretty nimble, but I dunno.