On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer at 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