A R Abid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would : still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. If you want to run X and some apps I highly recommend that you use some swap space (at least 32MB). How much you really need depends on how you use the system. (If you run xemacs+latex+ghostview+netscape+20xterms like I frequently do, then you'll probably need more than 32MB swap and you'd want to upgrade your RAM to 32MB in order to reduce paging activities)
: Also, would : Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one : Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using : Linux fdisk. Nope, if you don't mess with the DOS partitions they should remain intact. At least it always worked for me. But making a backup isn't a bad idea anyway... BTW, if you want to shrink a DOS partition, you should take a look at fips. --Chris -- Christian Linhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Software Development * Internetworking * Linux&GNU Support snail-mail: Wagingerstra_e 12/6, A-5020 Salzburg, AUSTRIA/EUROPE