Okay, here is my suggestion:
1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm
assuming it is the first one)
2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions.
3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk.
4. Setup your partitons something like so:
/boot 20MB
/
/swap
/home (for program files)
You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive and
the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat.
Hope this helps :)
>I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
>windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux
>to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
>original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard
>drive.
>
>When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and
>/swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, & /whatever else on
>dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb?
>I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive?
>And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB,
>but not sure on the rest.
>
>Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or two
>other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and
>general experimentation.
>Brian
>
>"My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true.
>
