Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV wrote:
>
> Hiy'all,
>
> Right then. I've actually been following Linux for about 4 or 5 years now,
> (probably closer to 4 than 5), but it's only been recently that I'm now in
> a position to get a system that I can use up and running. (Until recently,
> if a blind person like me and others wanted to get running on linux, it
> involved a second computer connected as a terminal and logging in that way,
> and I just didn't have the hardware.) OK, so here I am, getting ready to
> put together a new system, I have Slackware 3.6, which I got because I
> figure it's probably the distribution I'll learn the most from (never mind
> that it may well be the most difficult to maintain.....no RPM's, no GUI,
> but who needs a gui anyway?). Right. Anyway, the new system will be an AMD
> K6-2-350; 128MB RAM; and a 10.1GB hard drive. On this system, I want to
> also run Windows 95...well...more of necessity, in some cases. ...I'm no
> Bill Gates fan, and good going on Refund Day. ...
>
> So I've read a bit on the howto's regarding multi-boot installations, and
> I'm not exactly sure how this information will apply to me. From what I can
> gather anyway, I want to set up a Linux partition (or three...file systems
> for root, /usr and /home...although I've used Unix shell Internet access
> for a while, bear with the "uh...I'm not very familiar with all the inner
> workings, beyond 'it's easy to break stuff if you're not careful'...")
> Likely these at least will be native Linux file systems partitions, I
> suppose totaling about 2GB in size to start. The rest of the drive will
> then be formated FAT16, partially so that both Linux and Win95 can have
> access to them, and partly because I'm not sure which way things will go as
> far as eventual configuration--which OS will have the lion's share of disk
> space, and so on. Of course, one of these FAT16 partitions will boot Win95.
>
> Now, for the really stupid newbie questions mentioned in the subject line.
>
> 1) Is it easier to load Win95 first, or Linux first? Or which should go on
I would advise you put Widows first.
> the first partition? I read something about anything that is going to be
> bootable had better be in the first 524MB of disk space, or else it won't
> boot. So does this mean that I have to split things up a bit (I.E. a root
> partition with Lilo and stuff on it, then Win95, then the rest of the Linux
> file systems, then the rest of my FAT16 drives)? Or am I completely missing
> the boat on this one (on which point I wouldn't be surprised)?
Not 100% sure about this, my Widows partition is only 500M so I did not
encounter any problem.
>
> Further to that, should I even have any swap partition? If so, how large?
The RH5 manual said 16M or the size of RAM whichever is larger. Some
people on this list said that was a waste of disk space. And the space
can be used for Linux apps. Sorry you have 128 MB, little chance of
needing a swap partition.
> I'll probably mostly be running in command-line apps from bash or tcsh...X
I would leace the space for swap but do not create it, this should allow
you to check memory utilisation. Again I am assuming it is easier to
create and load a swap partition than remove one.
> might come along later, once I actually start learning a bit more and/or an
> X screen reader project that's going gets to a usable form.
>
> I think once I get a handle on these, I might be able to proceed OK. Of
> course, I'm probably wrong there, too...but that's OK :)
>
> Thanks muchly. Apologies for the rambling. Beddie-bye time for me. :)
>
> Buddy
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