I'd like to load SuSE 6.0 into a 2 GB partition of a 6 GB hard drive.  The
SuSE 6.0 manual suggests that for  >1 GB space, the partitions could be:
100MB root, ~50-80MB swap, 100MB /home, and the remainder  /usr.  Using
Yast, I do this, only to be told that I need more space on (I think) /root,
about 300MB total.  It is not clear to me what a reasonable space division
should be.  My interest at this time is to use this PC (a laptop, actually),
as a workstation, with Netscape, Start Office, etc. as the primary
applications.

Using Yast, what are your suggestions on sizing the partition,s and in what
order should they be?

Any tips?

I have tried loading SuSE on this machine, with the 6GB drive having a 4GB
NT partition already.  There are 3 available hda2, hda3, hda4.  If I need a
total of four  (/root, /home,/swap, and /usr), I presume that I will make an
extended partition.  If I do that, I seemed unable to "mount" the extended
partition.

Does it matter if the swap partition is real or extended?

If I intend to use one of the four partitions for DOS-FAT (my NT one is
NTFS), should I plan on making two extended partitions from the start?

Thanks


Stanley C. Rogacki, P.E.




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