On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:03 PM GMT, Harold Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Plenty. You can run it all in one partition, if you so choose (swap >> can be a file). You can have two (root and swap). You can have >> more. A lot more. The "age" of a PC doesn't matter to >> partitioning. >> >> What were you needing or thinking of setting up? >> >> >> Mark > > I have older pc with win 98 on it and was going to use it to learn > linux. I have puppy linux already but was repartitioning the hard > drive and preserving the win 98 if possible and try for dual boot. I > am still reading a lot. > > I have downloaded Part240 but just looked at it. I realized I needed > to do more research before I tried to repartition the 8 gig hard > drive. I have 64 mb of ram and am scavenging old pc for more. The > processor runs and 400 mhz. It has an amd chip and was a good computer > for me. > Ah, the good old K6-2. Its a descent chip and will give you descent performance for basic stuff, but I guess you'll need more RAM to leverage the system from relying on swap space. > I just want to repartition leaving adequate room for win 98 and > possibly a partition for linux, one partition for a swap file, and > possible another partition for data. If I don't need a swap file then > I could end up with 3 partitions and not 4. If I recall correctly, Win98 requires around 350MB for the OS. I'd say leave 2-3GB for the windows partition. As for Linux, try to keep it as simple as possible. I'd go for the typical fedora arrangement of 100MB for the boot partition, some 256MB for swap (its recommanded that swap is twice the size of RAM, but with only 64MB of RAM, thats too little), and then have the rest of the drive as the root filesystem. At this stage, I'd concentrate on learning Linux rather than trying to (overly) organize the system. Regards, IraqiGeek www.iraqigeek.com Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. R. S. Barton > > Any advice is welcome > > Harold > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
