[SGVLUG] The Day After an Install (Post Install To Do's - SomeMeeting Topics)

[John Jefferson Lowry IV]

On 5/18/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message----- Of Greg Stark
> >
> > I feel BJ has made a valid point.  So here is a quick pass at
> > "The Day After an Install".  I would like to hear what are
> > some of the first things you do to your box (it's the little
> > things that count.)
>
> OK, day 1 with my new laptop: re-install again...
>
> It seems I forgot to set up a partition for "suspend-to-disk" (a.k.a.
> "hibernation")  Does anyone know offhand how I should size it?  [same as
> physical RAM is the most intuitively obvious, but I noticed that the
> "suspend" process also tries to "shrink memory" -- does it perform a
> compression pass when saving to disk?]


IT depends on which version of suspend is being used. The Suspend2 project,
which is not in the mainline kernel yet, will use LZF compression (I think).
It has neat feautre like encryption and a GUI for when it does its thing.
http://www.suspend2.net/.

The is also swsup in the mainline kernel which works consistanly, but does
not have as many bells and whistles.



BTW: the installer for SuSE 10.2 had some interesting disk setup
> options, including "LVM based".  When you choose this option, it creates
> a small 70-ish meg "/boot" partition, then "the rest" as an LVM
> partition.  Within the partition, it created three basic volumes: /,
> /home, and <swap>
>
> >  Or if your migrating by doing a fresh
> > install.  How do you get your "stuff" over into the new OS
> > (How did you skin that cat!)
>
> Since this is a brand new machine, I'll be hooking them up with a cheap
> 100mbit switch/hub and then probably set the old /home partition as an
> NFS export and just cp the files...
>
> I also have an 80GB stand-alone disk drive which I could use as a place
> to hold a tar/tgz file (or, since my old laptop only has a 30gb drive,
> make an "image" copy with dd and then "mount" it via loopback and copy
> as appropriate...)  [come to think of it, I also just bought an 80GB
> iPod, could do the same thing with that I suppose...]
>
> Tom
>



-- 
John Lowry
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