On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, jiten wrote:
>what is the the solution?
>say i want to have 3 partitions for win and /, /home, /swap, /var for
>linux. how should i do it for 20 gb hd. i mean some partition has to go to
>dos fat32 extended as we can have only 4 primary partitions of which one
>has to be extended if we want totel of 7 partitions.
>is there anything like linux extended??
>-jiten
How much of the 20Gb do you want to sacrifice to Windoze? Do you play many
games on that, or something other that uses a lot of space?
Decide on that, and use fips/partitionmagic/completely clean install
with windows-fdisk to reserve that space.
Then install Mandrake, with /(root), swap and /home as separate
partitions. I'd personally also put /usr on a separate partition. Afaik,
Linux does not have this thing with primary and extended partitions that
the microsoft based systems do.
If you do not do a lot of windoze, my suggestion:
windoze: 5 Gb
/(root) 4Gb
/home 7Gb
swap 2 x size of your RAM
/usr 3Gb
In case you do not want a separate /usr, move that space to /, Mandrake
will set up a /usr dir in there then.
Much windoze:
Windoze: 10 Gb
/(root) 3Gb
/home 4Gb
swap 2 x size of RAM
/usr 3Gb
But that's my idea. Good luck in deciding. In the end the choice is yours.
Paul
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