I have Win2K and Debian at home, (excuse: my day job is developing in MS env. Yuch) For my MS stuff I keep a 1.5G for system and programs, 250M for swap and a 1G FAT32 for files - NTFS is notoriously incompatible so I prefer FAT32 for personal stuff. Speed is only really an issue with loading apps anyhow. I also kept the Win98 that came in the box, and use Partition Magic and Boot Magic with that. Guests can use Win98 for surfing, stops them breaking anything. I have BootMagic pointing to my / Debian which is also where LILO is loaded, ie not on the MBR. HDA MBR: BootMagic Win98 (contains boot menu for 98 and 2000) 1G / 250MB Linux swap 128M (should be 256 really I think) Win2K 1.5G Win2Kswap 250M
HDB /usr 2G /home 4G userFAT32 1G and some system backups. Loads of space left over, (HDB=20G) and is quite flexible, if I want to try a new dist I keep the MBR and /home and everything works OK. Tim Anderson > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > partitioning scheme? > > Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, > and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions like > /boot, /user, and /home. What do you guys recommend ? > > Also, im dual booting next to win2k(dont flame my, I have to do 3d > rendering), will I need to make a special boot partition for LILO? I've > heard something about /mbr which I dont understand. > > Will someone clarify this stuff for me? Thanks! > > ____________ > > _thaReF > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >