I finally sorted out my media workflow thanks to stevepusser and the Mepis repos. There's some discussion in
this thread. So I'm finally ready to move this puppy to my production machine.
I downloaded the latest from github. snapshot versions are 9.0.9-4 and installer versions are 9.0.8-3. Are these the ones I should upgrade to? Have they addressed the issue of pre-formatted partitions (or will they be overwritten - used to be a problem)? And will the installer allow me to set up a separate /home partition? Finding that info in the long thread is a bit like the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Once that's accomplished, I'm going to take on setting up either a usb flash drive with persistence or an external harddrive for a friend who has both xp and win 7 on his machine. Want to give him Debian to play with but don't want to touch his windoze disks.
How many feet of snow are you under fsmithred? It's sunny and 50 degrees here but I'm still bitching about the cold.