i have doubt. where would be these partitions sit in a dual bott sysytem. say for a 20 gb parttion i want three partions of totel 14 gb (i.e. c:\, d\: , e:\ ). where would this , /, /swap,/home, /usr lie i.e in extended dos> ...is there anything like linux extended ..in which i can make more partitions (as there can be only for primary ..correct me.....) plz explain me in trems of hda ...so that i an understand tha=e full partition table > > It appears that there are plenty of opinions on this one. You can of course > just leave Mandrake to guess the sizes for you but I guess you are asking > with a purpose in mind? > > Information I have been able to get hold of from installations starting with > NetBSD and continuing to the present Mandrake (excellent package!) includes > : > > /swap should be about twice or two and a half times the size of your memory. > Remember then if you are planning a memory upgrade it is easier to allow for > that now rather than have a re-partition at a later date. Thus 64Mb memory = > 128 Mb/160Mb swap. > > You can have a boot partition (/boot) of 8 Mb/10Mb which leaves room for > different kernel versions. I have never done this myself though. If your > drive is larger than 4Gb it is apparently worth having a /boot partition > owing to limitations in LiLo > > It may be worth having a home partition (/home) if you are going to have > lots of users with mailboxes (for example) > > The rest can be allocated to / or divided up between / and /usr. > > The minimum is I think two partitions /swap and / > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan Le Gros > Sent: 20 February 2001 10:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Installation Recommendations > > > Ok guys, how large should i make each of my partition (/, swap, /usr, /home) > for a full installation (all packages on all 4 cd's) of Linux Mandrake 7.2 > Powerpack Deluxe, at first i was getting installation errors because my / > directory was too small at 500 megs, so i increased it to 1 gig and now im > getting rpm errors later on in the installation. Thanks for the Info > > Ryan Le Gros
