On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > Hello Miark, > > On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote: > > > You meant "swap" rather than "root", right Nick? > > Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap > partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is > installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley said to make my Root 1 GB > which seems rather large if my entire Drive is only 2.1 GB. Besides, Win > 98 itself only occupies 350 MB. Is Mandrake 8.1 that much larger? > > Lastly, is the Home partition for all Programs one wants to load? With a > Swap partition of 130 MB and Root of 1 GB, that only leaves me about 900 > MB for a Home partition. Does that sound about right? And again, will > DiskDrake allow me to create those partitions or will I have to purchase > Partition Magic? > > Sorry to be so persistent, but having never run or installed Linux, this > all seems rather foreign to me although I've been a Win32 User for years. > > > The Root partition is where the apps will be installed, in the /usr tree so you'll need quite a bit of space there. Most Mandrake installs are over a gig but doesn't need to be. You can select a bare minimum of packages if you want.
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