According to Thomas Olenio: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like some help with determining the correct numbers
> for my primary and swap partition.
>
> Running 'fdisk' from the root installation disk with the p
> command, I am told;
>
> disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17 sectors, 873 cylinders
> units = cylinders of 272 * 512
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 873 118719+ Linux native
>
> Now if I am doing the math right, this indicates a hard
> drive of 120 meg. I want a swap partition of 8 meg, to
> double my RAM from 8 meg to 16 meg. This means that the
> primary Linux partition will be 112 meg.
Eh!, excuse me, if there is anyone bad at math's, its me, but i always know
just how much room i assign to a partition, linux has thought about
"dummies" like myself, ( and you by the looks of it), there is always an
option to start at "1" with the first partiion, you dont need to tell fdisk
which cyl, to end at, but simply type 100M+ which will result in a partition
size of around 100M, i dont think it could be "any" easier than that, could
it.? And realy that you could have seen with fdisk yourself, its written on
your screen when using fdisk.
>
> That said, I have to calculate the Begin, Start and End of
> the two new partitions so that I can add them, after
> deleting the single partition. This is where my head starts
> to swim.
Your reading and not digesting what is written.
>
> What is the math to calculate the numbers for my new
> partitions properly, based on my hard drive specifications?
> I want to understand this.
Enought said......
>
> Please keep it simple, as both "Linux System
> Administration", by M&T Books, and "Slackware Unleashed" 3rd
> edition, haven't got me any closer to an answer.
It cant get any simpler cant it.???
>
> This is making me feel real stupid.
Been there done that, many years ago, we all have to start somewhere with
linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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Regards Richard.
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