> Dean wrote:
> >
> > I had no prob in setting my own Partition Magic to create a
> > new one for Linux, but I am unsure as to how to do the swap
> > partition and initiate the setup.
>
> You need to make two partitions for Linux:  linux native and
> linux swap.  Linux native needs to be at least 500meg (a gig
> or more is better).  Linux swap needs to be 2-3 times the
> size of your RAM.

There us a limit of 128 MB per swap partition (but can have more than
1 swap partition).  My experience has been that the swap partition is
seldom use, so anything between 64 and 128 MB should suffice.

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