On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:15, Ian MacGregor wrote:
I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake
10.0 and am still only using half of my partition. That should give
you an idea of how much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It
will really depend on how much
I followed the partitioning offered by Suse, except for making the swap
partition larger (I'm planning on getting more memory soon). The only
other partition it created was ext3 as /. Mandrake installed fine onto
this.
As for size - it depends what you're planning on doing. XP Home with
This is advice I'll certainly use. I just started to work with 10.0. I may
want to partition my compter, and run xp and mandrake. I suppose I could
get Knoppix...also, from what you say, I could use any other distro to set
up a partition. I think I have a xandros and a fedora disc.
I do have
I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake 10.0 and
am still only using half of my partition. That should give you an idea of how
much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It will really depend on how
much you will fill up with personal files. I don't know much
