On Tuesday 10 May 2005 16:58, Robert Yu wrote:
> Thanks. If I decided to have SOME Windows programs on my Linux
> computer, Should I make a FAT32 space? (Keep in mind that I
> think you're doing all this partitioning at the Mandriva setup.
If you really want to have Windows on the same hard disk, you can
make it use FAT32 as it's file system. Linux can read and write to
that. If you choose NTFS, it is wise to create an extra partition
with a FAT32 file system, so you can shuffle things back and forth
between the two systems.
> More over on the Mandrake setup, whne I try ext2 partition or a
> "refurbish space thingy", it only allows on role at a time. This
> means I can either choose /home or /. If I choose /, will the
> computer automatically add /lib or /usr over, or I need to make
> another partition?
Not quite sure what you mean. First of all, don't use ext2, but
some journalling file system like ReiserFS or ext3. Next, in the
Mandrake Partitioning tool, leave your Windows partition as is, or
shrink it. The remaining space is free for Linux. If, for
example, your Windows is on hda1, make a / partition on hda2 (about
5-10 GB), a swap partition on hda3 and a /home partition on the
rest (assuming all partitions are primary. If not, the x in hdax
will be hda5, hda6 etc....).
All non-your-private-stuff like /usr, /var and so on will
automatically be located on the / partition.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich
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