Jesse Phillips wrote: > Paul D. Anderson Wrote: > >> I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. (I'm tired >> of sloooow start ups and want to tap into the great tools available.) The >> tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a significant difference >> in Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the better ones? Does it make a >> difference for running D2? >> >> Thanks in advance for your hellp. >> >> Paul >> > > > As pointed out, package management and available packages tend to be the only > differences from each distro. Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora tend to have the most > auto-configuration/GUI. > > I personally use Debian but it really doesn't matter if you intend to learn > Linux you can expect to be reinstalling and you may as well try another > distro when you do. > > The most important tip, create a separate partition for /home. > > As for space requirements. Others may have other input but these are the > rules I find reasonable for minimum space. > > Main partition, /, will not likely exceed 10GiB > Swap can be 1GiB Note that swap might be used for suspend to disk, it's therefore often advised to make swap at least as big as your available ram. > /home depends on if Linux becomes your primary OS. 100MiB is probably the > minimum, but then you'd just get annoyed :) want to share files with Windows > you can make /home 2GiB and mount a Windows partition which you can symbolic > link in /home ($ ln -s /mnt/win /home/user/files)
I'd also use an seperate /boot with a simple file system, for example ext2, because Grub might have problems with your root filesystem if you use ext4/xfs. 100mb should be enough (depends on how many kernels you want to keep, 15mb per kernel is common) However too many partitions can get complicated as well..
