On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>complexity, I want to intstall Windows 2000 (just to try it out :-) on the same
>drive and be able to choose what OS I want at bootup. So I need 3 partitions
>(Does Win2K need a swap partition? I don't think so.): one for Win2K (FAT32 so
>I can use it in Linux too) of about 8Gb (will clusters still be 4Kb at this
>size), one for /, and one for Linux swap.
Windoeze does not need a separate swap partition. It creates a large file
on a partition and uses that as swap space.
>How should the drives be installed (which should be hda and which should be
>hdb?)? How big should the swap be? I have 192Mb of RAM but I only rarely use
>over 20Mb of swap. What would be the best ordering of partitions for maximum
>Linux performance (Win2K performance is secondary)? How do I edit my fstab file
>afterwards if I can't boot Linux since the partitions have changed?
I don't think that with the present harddrives you need to be concerned
about performance depending on the place of the partition.
But incase you need to change the partitions so your root partition is
changed from e/g/ hda1 to hda2, you can do this trick from the lilo
prompt (have your bootdisk handy!!):
linux root=/dev/hda2
This will get you into linux, and you will be able to go into fstab
without a problem.
>What is the best way of going about all this? At my disposal I have
>PartitionMagic 4 (which unfortunately cannot make Linux swap partitions of
>over 133Mb) and Ghost (My dealer has it -- I'm not sure which version). I also
>of course have the Mandrake partitioning tools.
I would say: use partition magic. It indeed performs magic.
Hope this helps you on the way!
Paul
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