I'm aware that this isn't quite the ideal place for some basic Linux questions, but I'm hoping for some leniency.
Since VirtalBox isn't available (yet) for an OS/2 host, I'd like to additionally install the current Ubuntu beta on my OS/2 box to have a playground for it, but still am a Linux novice. So I'd like to get some advice about reasonable sizes and numbers of required/advised partitions for it. I have 768MB of memory installed and currently some 10GB of free HD space, which by doing some clean-up, I might be able to squeeze out close to additional 5GB, if absolutely need to be. I indent to keep OS/2 as my main system with its boot manager, but would like to set-up Ubuntu mainly in such a way, that it mainly complements programs which are not available at all for OS/2 or not in current versions anymore (like OO.org, SM with MM plugins, video-player) and to get familiar with it and not in a full-fledged super-duper way. From what I understand thus far, one should have: swap, root and home partitions. Is there also a Boot partition required, to keep some essential start-up (grub?) files below the infamous 8GB (BIOS?) limit? So, in my case what partition sizes and file systems are recommended and can I read (and possibly write to) my existing HPFS partitions and is there a version of JFS available, that is r(/w) compatible with IBM's JFS for OS/2, to be able to exchange data between both systems? Would there be good reasons against the use of JFS compared to ext2(/3) or one of those other existing file systems? _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
