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   mark lewis to Sean Dennis   
   MBSE, Sysops and distros   
   18 Jul 15 21:42:56   
   
   18 Jul 15 20:18, you wrote to me:   
      
    SD> Hello mark,   
      
    SD> 18 Jul 15 17:17, you wrote to Vince Coen:   
      
    ml>> i'm rather tossed up about whether to install to /home on a separate   
    ml>> drive/partition as i generally (try to) do or to install to /opt and   
    ml>> have that on another drive/partition...   
      
    SD> MBSE was designed to be installed in /opt.   
      
   that may be but there was a modification that moved it to an easy installation   
   to /home/whatever...   
      
    SD> The author specifies that and it was explained to me that doesn't   
    SD> break the LFS that way either.   
      
   while i do build my own *nix installations, i don't know all that much about   
   LFS... and i don't really see where it matters all that much in this case,   
   either...   
      
    SD> I have /opt installed on a separate 320GB hard drive for ease of   
    SD> backup and the ability to switch distros if need be without totally   
    SD> breaking my MBSE install.   
      
   i do that with /home as a matter of principle... especially since i don't want   
   to break an user's private installs and such ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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