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. 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. -- Sat Apr 5 05:05:00 EST 2003 05:05:00 up 14 days, 16:52, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.35, 0.51 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** "Are you sure you're not an encyclopedia salesman?" No, Ma'am. Just a burglar, come to ransack the flat." -- Monty Python
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