On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>I am a VERY new newbie in Linux. I have installed 7.1 using the windows
>install successfully, but I feel that it doesn't give Linux "free rein"
>and thus am going to attempt a complete install on its own partition.
>
>When I run the complete instal, what do I have to tell it about the
>partitions that it will make?
>
>I have a 13 GB HD, and am currently running Win98. I would ideally like
>to have 8GB for windows, and 4GB for Linux (or may be 7 and 6 as I don't
>use a lot of storage-hungry apps)
First make sure you shrink your windows partition (partition magic, fips,
whatever you have available). Then you can leave all the difficult work to
the setup. If you want to live dangerously, put everything in 1
partition. I would suggest you create at least a separate /home directory
(1 gb) and a separate /usr directory (4 gb) next to / (root) which can use
the rest.
But this is just how I would do it.
Paul
--
When you look at Prince Charles,
don't you think that someone in the Royal family
knew someone in the Royal family?
-Robin Williams
http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403
-=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
