On Saturday 19 June 2004 15:49, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am very much a newbie at Linux so please be patient with me and tell
me
> if I am wrong
>
> I want to install Mandrake 10.0 over my existing Fedora 2 installation
> which is dual booted with W98. Do I have to worry about the existing
boot
> loader?
>
> I have a current 30 Gig drive and an old 6 Gig drive on which resides
> Fedora. This old drive is slow so I am thinking of placing the
Mandrake 10
> install on both drives. By the way, I have only 128MB of RAM and a
900 Mhz
> AMD ATHLON CPU
>
> So here is what i am thinking
>
> Place about a 10 GB root on the 30 GB (Fast) drive.
>
> Place about a 400 MB /swap on the 6 GB (slow) drive and use the rest
for /home
>
> What other directories do i need?
>
> What disk format should I use for / and /home?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Preston
>
First I am a newbie so what I have to say take it with a lb of salt.
I think you should put swap on the fast drive but thay may not matter
since the master drive controls whether the dirve is fast or not. They
may be both slow.
Below are my partitions. They are not all necessary depend on someone
else for that information. I am running 10.0 Official with everything
that looked interesting to me.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
2015544 126972 1786188 7% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12
24601004 32812 23318504 1% /backup
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
67313 7802 56035 13% /boot
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
20157836 566540 19591296 3% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10
34268696 26553520 5974388 82% /music
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
5039216 33700 4749536 1% /tmp
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
20157836 7116148 12017716 38% /usr
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11
8062888 850608 6802708 12% /var
Good luck.
--
Regards;
Hoyt
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