-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well K7AAY,
I strongly encourage you to multi boot your system with as many OS's/distros that you can. Someone gave you a suggestion to run the distro in a VM. Running a system in a vm really cheats you out of serious interaction with the bootloader and using the Linux kernel with real-time performance. With VM's systems you'll really never know what modules or chipsets your devices use because the kernel sees virtual hardware. I don't know your intentions but you already have proficiency in Windows. If anything run Windows in a vm and learn to cope with Linux. It's cool to run a VM but not as cool as installing Linux on your box. You should create an extended partition with several logical partitions within it. Linux is not like Unix and other systems when it comes to booting from partitions. You can put that kernel ANYWHERE and it'll boot as long as the boot loader knows where to find it. Ff you had enough space you could actually make one Extended partition and have a bunch of logical ones inside it. Then you can put Linux on anyone of them. Here is my drive on my laptop Number Start End Size Type File system Flags ~ 1 32.3kB 10.7GB 10.7GB primary ntfs boot ~ 2 10.7GB 17.2GB 6440MB primary ext2 ~ 3 17.2GB 56.9GB 39.7GB extended ~ 5 17.2GB 32.2GB 15.0GB logical reiserfs ~ 6 32.2GB 55.8GB 23.6GB logical reiserfs ~ 7 55.8GB 56.4GB 535MB logical linux-swap ~ 8 56.4GB 56.9GB 535MB logical linux-swap ~ 4 56.9GB 80.0GB 23.1GB primary reiserfs This drive has 3 separate Linux installs and each share a /home and load balanced swap space between 2 partitions(7,8). Partition 1 is XP, Partition 2 is Linux, 3 is the extended container that's 40 Gigs. 5 is Linux, Partition 6 is the shared /home. 7-8 are both swap and 4 changes from OpenBSD-FreeBSD-BeOS-RHEL 5, depending on how I feel. Unix(Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) requires a primary partition to boot. Yet Linux can boot from logical partitions...how nice. There is no need to shrink your Windows partition in this case. Just use that unallocated space and make it a logical partition. The only issue might be the size of your home partition which I highly recommend you making separate. No swap means no suspend to disk so in light of that and the possibility of using logical partitions I'd make one that is 512MB at least. 7-8 Gigs for root and 2 gigs for home. Have fun Bryan K7AAY wrote: | 149GB hd from factory in my Lenovo SL400. Vista's Disk Management snap- | in shows this partitioning for Disk 0: | | Letter Volume Size Status | -- ----------- ------ ------------------------------------------- | S: SERVICE003 1004 MiB Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partiion) | C: SW_Preload 135 GiB Healthy (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) | unallocated 10 GiB recovered from C: w/ Disk Mgt snap-in & by | shrinking Q: w/ EASUS Part. Mgr. | Q: Lenovo 6 GiB Healthy (Primary Partition) | | It's my intent to install a Linux (eLive? Kubuntu? pcE17OS 2nd Ed.? | Dislike GNOME, fer sure) and I've been given to understand there's a | maximum of four (4) Primary Partitions on a hard drive, so how do I | overcome that? With extended partitions? Linux wants two partitions | (well, three, but since I have 2GB RAM, I think Linux will do OK sans | swap). | | Your on-topic responses are truly appreciated. | | - -- A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoAOLUACgkQh+MLjl5SKYRxKACfcdjDOaok1hhknqgSdloMMHkb mHcAn39byHxqdLmSr9c+u6dh3FU8HyXL =F9My -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
