>On 6/3/05, limahotel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I need to create a partition on a HD for dual boot Windows/Linux >> installation. Windows will go in the primary, Linux Fedora 3 in the >> Extended. I plan to use Partition Magic to create the extended partition. >> The documentation says the choices for Linux format type are Linuz Ext2 or >> Linus Ext3. Which one should I specify - Ext2 or Ext3? >> >> I noticed an existing installation (on a different HD) that had 3 partitions >> for Linux with sizes of 99.9 M, 255.9 M, and 28.2 G. Yet documentation says >> I will need 2 partitions for the new install - the main one and a swap. Do >> I need 2 or 3? If only 2, what would the 99.9 M be used for on the existing >> install? > >The answer to your last question is as follows: > >The previous system must have been set up by the RedHat/Fedora >installer automatically, with no user intervention. The nominally >100M partition is /boot, and is used to hold bootable system images >and files associated with the GRUB booter,. The nominally 256M >partition is swap, perhaps sized at minimum of (twice RAM, 256). The >rest of the disk is the main partition "/" which holds all of >everything else.
With a dual boot, is the boot loader on the primary partition (where Windows is located)? If so, do I still need to set aside the 100M partition for /boot? or can I just create two partitions for Linux - the swap (256M this case) and the remaining space for all the rest? Thanks. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
