MURRAY, Paul wrote:
If you have 128 megabytes of RAM, your swap space will, probably,
never be used.
You could mount your windows partition at '/windows' or '/win95'
or '/win98'...
...
HTH, Chuck
>
> I've been looking at a couple of different sources of information, but hey -
> if I post here I may get a specific answer rather than a general one.
>
> I'm purchasing an 8Gb hard drive. I intend to put windows '98 on it (for
> games) and linux on my existing 2Gb drive, which will become HD 2 (because
> windows insists on beeing booted from HD1).
>
> Apparently twice your memory is good for swap space, and the largest swap
> you can use is 128M. Since I will have 128M of memory, I'd be looking at two
> swap partitions of 128M - one on each drive.
>
> So: I'm looking at
> Hda - 8GB. hda1 Windows98 remainder, hda2 linux swap 128M.
> Hdb 2 Gb. hdb1 Linux root, hdb2 linux swap 128M.
>
> Since linux understands windows FAT32, I'll be able to mount my windows
> C:\LinuxHome directory on linux /home - I hope.
>
> However, I understand that it's a good idea to have two copies of the linux
> system so that you can upgrade the kernel. If your new kernel dies, you boot
> from the other one. The installation stuff I have does not seem to address
> this. Does this mean 2 boot partitions on hdb? Is that possible?
>
> Given that I want to get used to using linux for email and office, and want
> to be able to upgrade to kernel 2.4 (which is coming out soonish I think),
> how do you think I should set up my partitions?
>
> TIA
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