Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig unit and it now sits in my Pentium machine eagerly awaiting a new OS. I am going to install Debian on it, that's a given, but with all that space sort of figured I would break it up into 3, 10 gig partitions, and try the multi-boot thing. Have been using single boot setups up to this point.
Well, got cfdisk up on the screen and started out by putting 3 10 gig primary partitions on there. But quickly realized I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing. Up to this point I have always used the following scheme. /boot /swap / But the largest drive has been a 1.7 gig, so it made sense. I did a test install on an old 486, which I'm using for this message, using the above set up. And during the install, I selected newbe docs, but can't find anything on here in the line of HOW-TOs or that sort of stuff. Could someone get me started on this, or at least direct me to the proper docs? Also, if I use more than one Linux install, can I get by with just one /swap partition, or would I need one for each install? What I have in mind is a stable, the Potato disks I have now, a testing, Woody I believe it is at this point, and then FreeBSD, just because I have it laying around here. I'll leave the unstable to those more stout of heart than myself. Would the following work? /boot (5 meg primary) / (10240 meg logical) /swap (64 meg primary) Just leaving the rest open until I get ready to install the other OSs. Anyone? -- >Lute< Hey! It happens. Well it does...