On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote:
If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose everything under home if things go wrong and you have to reinstall or want to upgrade. Swap need not be more than 512MB. HTH
Is it better to set up that FAT32 partition for data from the Windows side of things, or from the Linux side, or does it make any difference in the long run? In other words, if it becomes, say, an "F:" drive within Windows, is that the same as creating it as, say, "/data" from within Linux, or are there some gotchas in this process?
Paranoid, as always, and certainly not used to the whole partitioning "thang" ... TIA
Makes no difference, AFAIK. The way I did it last time I set up a dual boot system was to install Windows (which always insists on being installed first) with only one partition, then install Mandrake with a FAT32 partition next to Windows (i.e. /hda2), then divide the rest of the disk between my various Linux partitions.
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