Excellent suggestions as ever gnashley :-) Just a few more questions...
Firstly, you suggest that I create my swap partition within my main partition. I've done a bit of googling but can't find any info on this. How would this be achieved?
Secondly, I've run into problems installing from the zip drive. Though I can mount and view the install packages just fine using the boot/root disks (I'm using the iomega.s boot disk) and though the setup program accepts my mount point as the "installation media source" once I begin an install it complains that it can't find the series a, ap ... etc. My zip directory structure is as follows:
ZipDisk--|
............|
............|---kernels--|
............|................|---bare.i
............|
............|
............|---slackware--|
..................................|---a
..................................|---ap
..................................|---(etc...)
I have only included the .tgz packages within the package subdirectories e.g. aaa_base-8.1.0-i386-3.tgz. Should I also have included the relevant .asc files?
The zip disk is in FAT16 format - is that perhaps the problem?
Third question - You say that Reiserfs takes more space that ext2 - how much more? I have experienced problems with ext2 in the past, so might consider a performance/space trade-off if it's not too great.
Finally could you perhaps glance over my post here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=147943 (I didn't want to overload this thread) regarding partitions. You have of course already answered my question relating to the swap disk size. You might also notice that I took a less fleeting look at my laptop's specs and found that I had overestimated the HDD size by 50MB
Again, many, many thanks for your excellent advice