On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:53:57 +0200, "Siva shanmugam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What would be a good optimized way to partition a 40 GB IDE harddisk for > desktop use.
Vague > > 1) Windows XP (to run windows based applications) > 2) RH (use daily) > 3) Freebsd (to experiment) > 4) Someother linux distro (to experiment). > > Some where I read creating one primary and one extended partition. > The primary would contain the NTFS and the other filesystem are in the > extended. > Important data would be stored on NTFS partition so that in case of > harddisk crash, the datas can still be recovered. > Some suggestions and comments would be very helpful. > I'd go for 2 Win32 partitions of 8G and 10G, the first one to install XP/crap, and the 10GB partition to store shared stuff, like maybe mp3s, so that you can listen to them from whichever OS you want. You might have to make this partition fat32 because of issues with NTFS support in *nix. Look at the option of installing XP on FAT32. For Redhat, /boot - 20M, / - 400M, /tmp - 300M, /var - 1G, /usr - 4G, /usr/local - 2G. and You can choose whatever you want for /home. For your second Linux distro you want to experiment with, you could create a single partition to install, or share your swap, /boot and /home partitions from the redhat install. You could use more partitions from redhat, but might be risky, so best bet is to keep a 5G partition to install and play around with a new distro, by using the same swap partition. FreeBSD is nice. You could still share the swap partition, or create a whole partitioning scheme for it. The best bet would be to read teh handbook, it has decent sugestions for Linux/FreeBSD existence. And i seem to remember reading a howtos for this as well. You planning to install QNX or Solaris on this disk as well? > Is it required that the boot files of a operating system should be > within 1024 cylinders? No. However, you might want to use a OS selector like XOSL. It looks neat and works well, if nothing else. Otherwise, LILO or whichever bootloader you choose to use will be fine. -- cheers -- Sthitaprajna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
