I'm sorry to ask this again, because i asked something along the same lines last week. someone even gave me a link for it, BUT....my hard drive was formatted out and everything is GONE. here's the setup....
2 hard drives 20GB partitioned to 5gb for windows and 15gb for anything else 100gb drive unpartitioned and fresh took FOREVER to get the 100gb drive installed, but it's finally up and running. i had formatted out linux and ended up doing a re- install of windows 98. so to get to the questions i have... i need a lnk explaining all the linux partitions or someone to tell me what they are. i know one of the partitions is used for backing up the OS, and i'd like to store that on a separate hard drive. i want to make sure i put that partition separate in case ANYTHING. i've got 15gb to run with on my smaller hard drive. i could dedicate it all to linux if need be. the 100gb drive is a little faster than the 20gb drive. 100gb drive has 8mb buffer, 20gb drive has 4mb buffer, both are 7200rpm and 8.9ms seek time. both are on the primary IDE channel, 20gb is master, 100gb is slave. as i already said, i'm sorry to ask the same questions over again, but i've lost everything, and i really don't know how to do a search for previously asked questions. also the intended use of my computer.....(because i'm sure this helps to know) music (constantly) video (getting into editing and burning VCDs) some gaming school work (semester starts Aug 25...been 7 years and i can't wait to get back!) web surfing i plan to share music and video between linux and windows. i'm actually going to partition my 100gb hard drive later on to separate them, or should i do this before installing mandrake 9.1 again? meaning, is it easier to have them partitioned prior to installation than it is to get new partitions working in linux? (btw, diskdrake is MUCH easier to use than fdisk) on a windows related note....after using linux for only a week and then going back to windows, i find myself utterly lost in windows. i'm addicted. running multiple desktops is REAL nice, and i started to really prefer mozilla over internet explorer. thanks to all!
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