On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:51:34AM -0800, Arthur Kng wrote: > 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and > delete all existing partitions. make a > primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the > Windows OS and which will also have the data > which i want to access from Win and Linux. > > 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' > where i'll load Linux. > > 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, > which will have the linux only data. > > 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at > any given time i run atmost > (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) > etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so > i'm thinking of doing away with the swap > partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if > i'm wrong please do tell me.
I think there's an issue here about Linux needing its boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk, or something like that. In any case, here's what I'd recommend: hda1: 4 GB FAT Primary hda3: 100 MB ext3 Primary hda4: 150 MB linux-swap hda2: Extended hda5: 7 GB logical FAT hda6: 7 GB logical ext3 Growable hda1 is to house Windows' system files (the C: drive); hda3 for Linux's ``/boot'' directory; and hda2 being the extended partition that holds hda5 and hda6. hda5 you can use to store non-system Windows stuff (the D: drive); and hda6 for your ``/'' directory in Linux. About the swap space --- call me old-fashioned but I think it really is necessary. About hda6 being ``growable'': you may or may not choose to make it so, depending on how much expertise you're able to garner on the subject. If you do make it so, you'll be able to use every last megabyte of your hard disk. If not, you'll ``lose'' about 1.76 MB, because I rounded off space to the nearest integer. HTH, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
