Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?

[James Schofield]

ok, I have one more question along this thread.

I have a 520 meg harddrive on my NEC laptop.. 

I am going to run Slackware 4 on it.. because I can do a Floppy install
with it.
Can you do a FTP install of Mandrake?? 

Anyway.. how do you think I should partition my harddrive for a basic X
internet laptop.. nothing too complicated.. just web email and IRC.. 

I will add whatever I can fit into it... so give me an idea?

Should I just go with Swap and /

or Swap / /boot /usr /home?   and how much space out of 520 should I go?

I am getting a 1.4 gig for the laptop.. so I will be using that in future
for Linux I think.

James