Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new
CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems
fine. I made partitions like:
1. /swap 80MB
2. /boot 20MB
3. / 800MB
4. /usr 200MB
5. /home 500MB
or roughly that amount. It's doing the install right now so I can't
check. I did find the install notes from my LUG meeting last month. The
minimum they gave said to have /, /boot, /swap, /home, and /usr .
The sweet sounds of the CD spinning are filling my ears now. Excuse me
while I bask in the glow of the monitor and read more e-mail.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Leas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Okay, here is my suggestion:
>
>1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm
>assuming it is the first one)
>2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions.
>3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk.
>4. Setup your partitons something like so:
> /boot 20MB
> /
> /swap
> /home (for program files)
>
>You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive
and
>the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat.
>
>Hope this helps :)
>
>
>>I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
>>windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed
Linux
>>to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
>>original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard
>>drive.
>>
>>When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and
>>/swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, & /whatever else
on
>>dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb?
>>I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive?
>>And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB,
>>but not sure on the rest.
>>
>>Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or
two
>>other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and
>>general experimentation.
>>Brian
>>
>>"My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true.
>>
