> Well, perhaps I should just let 'auto defaults for all' do
> its thing on the 245Mb Quantum drive, install from the 170Mb
> Conner and then use it as a manually mounted work space. The
> disadvantage that springs to mind is that the swap space
> would come out of the Quantum's 245Mb (I'm not sure that's a
> significant disadvantage though).

Might be an advantage.  Years ago I had a Connor 170Mb drive that was
extraordinarily slow.  "Best" throughput I saw with it was 360KB/s to
or from the raw device, when decent drives on the same system were in
the MB/s range.

Regards,

Giles