On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > First up, thank you everyone for your prompt > > help. you've really made it easier for me. > > reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which > > goes like this: > > > > ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB > > having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my > > data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) > > Don't do away with the swap. That's dangerous. > > If you've already gotten the mindset to set aside 10gb for your > Win/Share data, and the remaining 10gb for everything else, make things > even easier on yourself. "More" can be confusing. > > For linux, you're going to need three partitions - a SWAP, a /boot and a > / (root) - the /home can live off the root - less partitions the better. > Sorry, Stephen, but I have to disagree. Putting /home in a separate partition is much safer. There are some advantages to having a separate /boot if you are going to run several distros, but it's far from essential, and I think risking losing /home to a re-install or upgrade formatting the partition is a much bigger risk (even though re-installs are not as frequent as in windows).
I know it can be backed up, but sod's law, you won't have backed up recently when trouble does come. > Put aside 100mb for the /boot, put aside 256mb for the SWAP, and the > rest give to / (root) - /home can live off of the / (root) so no need to > setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home > partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. This way you've > kept it simple (remember the KISS principle!!) and you're set. Use lilo > as your boot manager to jump back and forth to Windows. > > This way you're not creating heaps of different partitions that are > unnecessary. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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