to answer your question you can install on any available drive, SSD or HDD... use or create some or all of your partitions wherever you like. your new fstab will point to the correct locations without your intervention.
as far as SSD life, I am no expert but I do a lot of installs. I use SSD for everything that I want to run faster. Sometimes I move the partitions to a different drive because of Sace or preference.
In my experience the the SSD failure rate is the same or less than the HHD drives.
Back in the day SSDs were primitive and Expensive. I believe those gyrations are no longer necessary.
On 10/11/20 9:45 AM, mick crane wrote:
Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to suitably formatted partitions on HDD ?Or is there more to it ? mick