Reorganising F11 partitions - how to? --follow-on

[DB]

Hi all,

After following the various advice you gave me, I was able to a) move my 
/usr partition contacts to / & modify fstab.  Trying to get rid of the 
/tmp partition put me into the "login-black screen" cycle, so had to 
leave that alone.  Did the 11-12 preupgrade with the only problem of not 
having enoough space for the upgrade image in /boot; that got dealt with 
by the download alternative.

  So...   everything "sort of" works.  Biggest annoyance (machine is a 
Toshiba Equium A160 loptop) is when the machine goes into powersave or I 
close the lid, the restart produces a screen that looks like a 
psychedelic nightmare.  By knowing where things are, I can start some of 
the apps, but the text is not 100% readable.

2nd biggest pain is to persuade the graphics that I only want one screen 
image (maybe in 2 sizes for the Toshiba screen & my external screen), 
rather than an image somehow split over the 2 screens.  -I'll be trying 
the script Marko offered during the week.

Then.... it appears that if I plugin a USB device, it gets recognised, 
but if I startup with the device already plugged in, it isn't seen.  
(Similar happened in F11 with my PCMCIA WLAN card, it was only 
recognised when plugged into a running system.

And of course, Skype still kills itself when I try to test the webcam.

OK, following on from the preupgrade idea... If I want to do a clean 
install, I have the choice of Live-cd, DVD-iso od CD-isos.  I had some 
problems last year trying to burn a DVD-iso, so I'm wondering:- can I   
burn all the CD images one-by-one to a DVD & then boot from it & have 
the installer find the disc images as they are required?  Or is it a 
must to have them each on a separate CD?  Or.... as the Toshi refuses to 
boot from a USB device, can I do a someone was suggesting during the 
week, burn the initial disc to CD & then access the other disc images 
from a USB external drive?

As ever, many thanks for all your suggestions,

Dave in snowy Rauris