Leon <leon.kotze@allenovery.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the great advice. It seems that much of the partitioning
> information available is a little outdated? (Too many partitions?)

You can never have too many partitions (unless you plan on putting /etc
on its own partition)! Please read the partition HOWTO. You don't know
what you are talking about until you do!

> I was planning on doing two seperate installs, but after Stefan's
> comments think I'll do my Kernel compilations in the main distro, i.e.
> multi-boot on the same 'partition'.

Eh? Oh, different kernels, same root partition? Yes. That's normal.

> I am convinced that performance would be best by having one disk
> dedicated to video, but on the other hand I suppose it will be mostly

Don't worry about it. We don't have the faintest idea what you are
talking about and neither do you.

> Think, I'll use Grub instead of Lilo.

I prefer lilo, thogh I use grub in some places.

> A general question re software raid 0 (which is the option I have). I

Eh? That's striping. Why? Unless you are striping across two different
controllers, you won't get anything out of it. And it's probably not
worth bothering about anyway.

> wanted to use as much of the diskspace available for video, i.e. after

What's "video"?

> installing Linux, combine all the remaining space into one logical
> mount.

No sense in that. It will be one logical unit anyway, if you mean one
disk. Why not use lvm if you really want to fiddle that way?

> This obviously isn't an ideal set-up for Video editing, but it the

What's "video editing"? Do you mean cutting and splicing fillums? How
do you do that? I don't know of any applications, but I suppose there
are some.

Peter