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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