Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-10 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Ray wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:03:27AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My idea was to partition as follows: #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb #2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows #3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size 128mb now? #4 ext2 / rest

Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb now that REAL smp is in the kernel). My question is how to partition the disk. I probably need to dual boot with windows 95 or NT (probably will use NT

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jul, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Huge hard disk...how to partition I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb now that REAL smp is in the kernel). My question is how to partition

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:03:27AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My idea was to partition as follows: #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb #2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows #3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size 128mb now? #4 ext2 / rest of the disk (mount

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-07 Thread Brad
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My idea was to partition as follows: #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb I'd recommend putting all of / except for /usr, /var, and /home (and any other nonstandard /dir) here. 100M should be fine for that; my system has that setup