Steve, your approach sounds pretty good. Is 20 gigs enough for all that though? My xp installing is over 6 gigs. I have a similar setup but I use a 15gig chopped in half (7.5gig for all of linux and 7.5 for fat32 data partition). Then I have a 40gig drive with xp on a 12gig partition and the rest is for storage. You should be all set. The latest mandrake is pretty easy to set up.
--- Steven Kopischke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My laptop is returning home tomorrow after a week in > the shop for a bad > hard drive. It is a 4-month old Compaq Presario with > 256Mb RAM and a 20Gb > hard drive -- plenty of room for XP and Linux to > coexist while I migrate to > Linux. That having been said, how do I begin? > > (I have the three Mandrake 8.2 ISO CD's I created > from downloads and once > successfully installed on the above-mentioned > laptop. However, the lesson I > learned is that I can't be too cavalier with carving > up my laptop.) > > From what I have read on this list over the past > couple of weeks, I am > considering the following approach: > > 1. Start with XP loaded and install Partition Magic. > (I would partition the > hard drive before installing anything if I could, > but I only have a > 'recovery' CD that drops an image onto the hard > drive without regard for > how I may want to partition it.) > 2. Carve the hard drive into at least four volumes: > a: Windows XP operating system and > applications (leave as NTFS > file system) > b: Linux operating system and applications > (ext2 file system) > c: Linux swap > d: Data (FAT 32 file system so I can access > from both OS') > 3. Install Mandrake 8.2 > 4. Install XP applications > 5. Restore data files > > My questions are these: > - Is my approach sound? > - Will my drive partitioning work? > - How large should the drive volumes be to maximize > utility? (I know I can > resize at will with Partition Magic, but I'd like to > leave it stable for a > while.) > - Is there anything I am neglecting to take into > consideration? > > Many thanks in advance for your input. > > > Steven Kopischke > Green Bay, WI USA > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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