ok, i think you were on the right track, you just made a few typos...
first off, you're right, you do need 3 partitions. you called them:
\boot
\root
\swap
but they >should< be named (in corresponding order to the names above):
/boot
/
(swap partitions don't have a name, err, mount point rather).
secondly, the partition types and sizes should be as follows:
root partition (i.e. /) = linux native, however big you want
boot partition (i.e. /boot) = linux native, 8 or no bigger than 16 megs
swap partition = linux swap, as much RAM as your system has
thirdly, i don't think you can set a mount point for a windows partition, so
its cool that its "not set".
lastly...a small bit of info on linux partitions and the linux filesystem.
/ and /boot aren't partition names, they are mount points. the partition's
names (device names) will be something like hda1, hda2, etc. everything
starts at the root, and you "mount" partitions somewhere decending from the
root. oh yeah, and the linux filesystem uses forward slashes "/", instead of
backslashes "\". so to access a file or change directory, i'd type something
like cd /home/chris/mypornomovies
hope this kinda clears things up for ya. when i was installing linux, i had
no idea what each partition was accually for, so i had no idea how big to
make each partition, so if you're curious, just ask. also, i'm a linux
newbie too, so i might be kinda confusing about stuff!
christopher
On Thursday 28 December 2000 08:23, you wrote:
> Well, Chris thanks for your help. As u know i'm just too new to linux.(
> those terms \ or \root or whatever are too new to me). So u've suggest me
> to use fdisk, is it easy to use? I have heard that fdisk is a bit hard to
> use. Well once again thank you.
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