My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it.
Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 -> /boot = 50MB sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 -> /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
