I want to install Red Hat 6.1 on my pc. I have 2.1 gb hard disk dedicated for this
purpose. how should i proceed with partitions for the various file systems?
I will be using it for practicing purpose. Pls advice.
regards
Saurabh
n Thu, 02 December 1999, "P. R. Seshan" wrote:
>
> afasik, Linux simply takes all the area that you define as swap thereby putting less
>load on the physical RAM. and I guess it is also
> true that we need at least twice the amount of RAM for swap space. I've 128 MB RAM
>and hence I'd give 250 MB swap.
>
> I hope my understanding is corrrect, If there are some differences pl. update me on
>the same.
>
>
> "Nagarjuna G." wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Seshan wrote:
> >
> > ->: I had installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 on a 4.3 GB hdd. I had about ~3.8 GB
> > ->: for Linux Native and about ~255 MB for the Swap partition. Now that I
> > ->: have to release the hdd, I run fdisk under dos 6.22. Fdisk dose not
> > ->: recognise the swap partition but it shows a non-dos partition of 255 MB
> > ->: but does not allow me to delete it.
> > ->:
> > ->: I also tried Fdisk /mbr but in vain.
> > ->:
> >
> > Any linux related partitions cannot be handled by fdisk of dos. Use fdisk
> > from linux to get what you want.
> >
> > Also are you sure linux supports swap partitions greater than 128MB?
> > You can have more than one swap partition but not larger than 128MB.
> > Am I right?
> >
> > Nagarjuna
> >
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