Ida or Roly wrote:
>
> i have an empty disk drive that i want to partition so i can
> load unix. What are the fdisk command i should use to
> create the needed directory? Which directory (partition)
> should i create? Thanks for your time.
It sounds like you're wanting to create the partitions with the DOS
fdisk. It's not recommended to do that. Instead use the partitioning
tools provided by the installation routine for Mandrake.
At a minimum, you'll want to create two partitions. First, a swap
partition. The size of that partition will depend on the amount of RAM
you have in your computer and the kinds of programs you'll typically run
on the system. Overall, I'd recommend 128M as a good compromise -- hard
drive space is pretty cheap these days. Second, you'll need a root
partition that you'll install Linux into. Make this as large as the
hard drive allows.
If you have a large hard drive, you may want to create another small
partition that you'll mount as /boot. This partition holds you kernel
and boot information. You'll want to limit this partition to around 10
or 15M, it's not likely you'll need more space than that. This
partition is created because BIOSes have a problem pointing any further
than 1024 cylinders into a hard drive. By creating this partition at
the beginning of the drive, you guarantee that you won't have problems
getting your Linux system to boot properly.
Hope this information helps.
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