On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:43, Arthur Kng wrote: > Hey all, > > First up, thank you everyone for your prompt > help. you've really made it easier for me. > reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which > goes like this: > > ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB > having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my > data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) > > 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and > delete all existing partitions. make a > primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the > Windows OS and which will also have the data > which i want to access from Win and Linux. > > 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' > where i'll load Linux. > > 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, > which will have the linux only data. > > 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at > any given time i run atmost > (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) > etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so > i'm thinking of doing away with the swap > partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if > i'm wrong please do tell me.
80% of the time you won't need swap... but in the 20% cases where you will (like starting KDE or Gnome) it's great to have it. Loose the 500M to swap... your number of headaches will drop tremendously. > > > so in short: > > PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB > /dev/hda1 > > EXTENDED PARTITION > /dev/hda2 > LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB > /dev/hda5 > > LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB > /dev/hda6 > > i know this is a long way to do it but this way i > avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and > the other for my data) and have a substantial space > for the 'Linux only data' partition. > > now i would like to know what you all think about > this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just > starting out on Linux. > > thank you for your help. > > AK > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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