On Friday 16 November 2001 5:24 pm, you wrote: > i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would > almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u > can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home...... by two partition i meant swap and /. i ran in this problem recently. i had a root, swap and home on a small hd(2gig). icant remember how much space i allocated to / and /home, but swap was about 130mb. anyway, after a while i just found myself no more romm on / ...... what to do then? well i reinstalled with just swap and / ... you cant afford more free space than you need in one partition, because it is likely that you will need it in the other one. that's my point really. however, if you use ext2, you can apparently resize partitions with parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ > On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote: > > > I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before > > > I start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a > > > P166, 64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a > > > number of partitions, namely: > > > > > > Root > > > Sway (about twice my RAM therefore 128 MB) > > > > Thats actually called Swap > > > > > Data (presumably a number of data partitions) > > > > Generally, if you just had three partitions, it would be root swap > > home... > > > > > My question is, will the install routine of Mandrake 8.1 do the > > > partitioning for me, or do I have to purchase Partition Magic to do it > > > for me? > > > > No, DiskDrake will cut it up for you just fine, and you can either have > > it auto allocate the space, or you can tell it exaclty how much you want > > in each partition. It's very well laid out, and fairly self explanatory. > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > > > > > > > peace, > > > > Rog
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