On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Bart Schaefer" barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote: <snip>

I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate it).

Bart: I'm contemplating using 10 of the 40 GB for WinXP and the rest for CentOS 5. I hope to redo this box on Friday. What you mentioned is one of my many pet peeves about Windows. Frequently, I will install some Windows ap and the piggish programmers who wrote the stuff were not professional enough to allow me to select where I want it installed (our other boxes have a D partition for Programs, which is where I'd want it installed) and they just go ahead and install into C, as if they own the box. Lanny