OT -XP on 2 gig

[anton]

very OT I know...
There was a conversation a while back about minimum partition sizes for 
win XP, and 8.5gig was mentioned as a minimum. I said (I hadn't 
actually...) that I had done it to a 6 gig partition without problems. 
Well, now I have /actually/ installed it to a 2 gig partition (C:), and 
also without problems - not even a warning. Another guy at varsity 
reckons he has it on 1.8 gig.
So for the really OT part... 2 gig is not enough for anything! I 
installed a couple of apps and now have no space, well didn't until I 
got rid of the virtual memory... I also put in a 2 gig (F:) fat32 
partition (rest is Linux...) and have put a similar sized virtual memory 
file (whatever it is called, done through the advanced properties of my 
computer or whatever). My question is - have I moved the VM from my C: 
drive to my F: drive, or have I just disabled VM and am now wasting half 
my F: space? I am pretty sure I will never be running 512 meg of stuff 
on my win boot, but what happens if I do?

In an ON topic turn - I have installed RH into a partition (/other) with 
Mandrake being my main choice and at the "real root" (does that make 
sense?). There is a 1 gig swap which I hoped I was using for both MDK 
and RH. Is that the "resume=/dev/hda6" (hda6 being the swap) part of the 
bootloader parameter? Or am I also just running RH without VM?
cheers
Anton

ps I tried my very best to get rid of doze altogether but alas, such is 
a world without justice... I failed!