<div>I recommend installing gobolinux if you have a free partition. It
uses a different filesystem hierarchy than the normal /usr or /bin,
instead it has /programs or /system. It also links each file to a
legacy filesystem so it is compatible with hardcoded legacy
directories. I installed t in under 2GB of space, so a 5GB partition is
more than enough. <br>
<br>
To install programes in gobolinux you do the following. go to console
and type InstallPackage <package filename> and it installs it (eg
'InstallPackage Sword--1.5.8--i686.tar.bz2'). To make a package from
source is also very simple, you type 'MakeRecipe <program name>
<program version> <source download url>', once the recipe
is made type 'Compile <program name> <program version>' and
it installs the program. To make a package after it is installed you
type 'CreatePackage <program name> <program version>' and
that package can be installed on another pc with InstallPackage. I've
done this for sword and bibletime :P go to <a href="http://www.gobolinux.org">www.gobolinux.org</a> if you
want to try it.<br>
<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Right now I have 5 more blank partitions (7 total), 10 GB each, for<br>installing vanilla distros. I can probably get away with using 5 GB
<br>partitions instead of 10 GB. (Each Fedora install so far was about 3.5 GB,<br>including extra libs and such in case I need to compile GnomeSword or<br>something). In this case, I would have 12 more (14 total) to use.
<br> What
other distros would be useful? Should I do SuSE? (I already
have DVDs<br>or DVD ISO images for 9.0-9.3, and can easily download 10.0) This wouldn't<br>be difficult, but if Packman already has it taken care of, then to do so<br>would be pointless. Mandrake/Mandriva may not be difficult, since it is also
<br>an RPM distro. Would there be a point to doing FC2 or FC1 builds, or are<br>they too old?</blockquote><div> </div></div>