(originally sent to OP as private mail... still have a spamblock from outblaze.com, grrr).
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:01:57 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) "Steve Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS > motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. > EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GB EIDE and also a SCSI 12 GB which has > about 10 GB free. My suggestion, leave C: as is for now. E could be used for /home, and you might as well install the system on the scsi drive - since scsi is usually faster than IDE. What's on the scsi drive? Could it be easily moved over to another drive? > I read that this install takes about 19 gb and I don't really want to > partition my main drive although it has 100 GB free. I would like to > install Hmm. 19 gigs does seem to be a lot. I have the system loaded now on a 13 gig slice of a 30 meg drive, and the rest is divvied up (5 gig home, 5 gig /usr/local, swap, a spare 5 gig unused slice.) 13 gigs for me at least is a lot of growing room. If nothing else, it gives me ample room for a DVD rip or cd burns etc. I usually stuff all that in /tmp which here is part of the 13 gig overall partition. It's mostly used for a place to hold large files on a temporary basis. If anything, /home could stand a little more room. > using my e: drive and me F: drive. Is it possible during installation > to allocate mount points on both of these drives or do I really only > want to Easily done. Linux doesn't use drive letters of course, so you'll want to determine which devices are really used. Your scsi (G:) is probably /dev/sda, and the first partition is /dev/sda1, for instance. I'd probably want to divvy that in two partitions, 1 for /, and the other for swap (maybe 1 gig or less). > Since at this point I plan on installing linux to it's own drive do > need to have something to control where I boot from or is it easier to > just tell my BIOS to boot from the second drive when I want to boot > Linux. This way I don I only have the one OS, but I'd say that it's trivial to set up your MBR on the primary drive. The big consideration I suppose is if you install windows after you install Linux. Linux can boot off of any drive in the system - all it needs to know is where the root drive is. For example, I've had 2 drives in this system - but I boot off of /dev/hdb7, and my MBR is on /dev/hda (or at least it was: I've gone to the 1 disk for right now. hda is empty. One point - you want a scratchpad area at least as large as the largest partition that you are using. It really facilitates moving things around should you ever want or have to do that. For instance, some of my partitions are 5 gigs, and I have enough space in /tmp to host any one of those at one time. Seems like you have enough room for that :). > Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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