-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 20:02, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > > If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for > > data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. > > You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do > > not want to lose everything under home if things go wrong and you > > have to reinstall or want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than > > 512MB. HTH > > Is it better to set up that FAT32 partition for data from the > Windows side of things, or from the Linux side, or does it make any > difference in the long run? In other words, if it becomes, say, an > "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, > "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this > process? > I've done it both ways and been OK, but I've read that some people have not been so lucky, so create the partition in windows. Create the linux partitions with diskdrake.
Remember that if you start an install you can 'dummy run' - you can try out your partition settings because nothing is written to disk until you finish. It will warn you when it is about to write the partition table, and you can abort at any time before that write and you will be perfectly safe. > Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole > partitioning "thang" ... TIA Actually, I feel the whole thing is less fraught with diskdrake than it ever was in windows. As for being paranoid - join the gang! It's a healthy thing to be <g> Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX0pOkFAvMr/nNX8RAhd+AKCFzQP/aDIvUEnr8BFDupgrpA1dpwCfaBf5 RAxQB7HnDt+9sVT+7hxRp0s= =4hbx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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