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| Thread ID: 32553 | 2003-04-22 06:57:00 | question about partition. | pisceskiwi (1303) | Press F1 |
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| 137822 | 2003-04-22 06:57:00 | Howdy, I'm getting a laptop I recently order. *not yet arrived* It a Dell Inspiron 4150 P 4, 1.8 GHz 512 MB 32 MB DDR 4X AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 Graphics 40 GB Hard Drive... etc. The operation system is XP pro. (but I choose "No installation service requested" Now the question is: What I would like to do is a partition, i.e. 40GB HDD, into 20GB each (one for XP Pro, and other is for RedHat 8.0) *Will be getting RH 9.0 later* So, what would be the best way to partition the hard drive??? Thanks for your help, looking forward checkin it out. :) |
pisceskiwi (1303) | ||
| 137823 | 2003-04-22 07:06:00 | I belive that red hat has a built in partitioner which is what i used for Myself when i had RH7 and XpRO, It was a little complicated but it was allright | Voyle_fam (1599) | ||
| 137824 | 2003-04-22 07:07:00 | Lay your hands on a win98 bootdisk, or download from www.bootdisk.com and put it in A drive. Boot up and when you get to the prompt, type in and enter FDISK. You can delete/add partitions from the menu that comes up. Also note that it would be best to install XP first as Linux has a better bootloader. Also, windows has an inclination to think it is the only operating system around and overwrites the MBR so that it takes a lot of work to get back to where you can have a choice of what system to use when booting up. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 137825 | 2003-04-22 07:32:00 | Voyle: Thanks for replying, so it will work? from RH CD automatic partition? Pheonix: Thanks for replying, lucky I have 98se CD and also bootdisk. I'll have to find out how to use FDISK etc to make sure to understand it. Alrighty, yeah I'll make sure install XP first. |
pisceskiwi (1303) | ||
| 137826 | 2003-04-22 08:57:00 | You will need more than one partition for Linux - at least two (root (/) and a swap partition of about twice your installed RAM). A better setup would be / (size depends on what you are doing - as small as 1G and as large as 5G), /boot (about 100M), swap, /home (for your data files). I have never tried the workstation\desktop\server options in RedHat - better to choose Custom then you can set up the partitions the way you want them to be. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 137827 | 2003-04-22 08:59:00 | I would agree with the Boot Disk, any boot disk, and FDisk so that you have a 20 gig primary partition. From there on in, leave the Extended partition empty and let RedHat 9 auto-partition the extended and you should end up with something like this: hda1 (C:) 20Gigs /boot (102megs) / (19.5gigs) SWAP (upto 256MBish....) Use the RH9 Boot Loader :-) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 137828 | 2003-04-22 09:08:00 | Just need to be aware that if you install everything with RH9 you need 5Gbytes for /. A good installation with both GNOME and KDE will take close to 2GBytes. The rest up to 5G is software that you may or may not want (but if you have space, why not?) | JohnD (509) | ||
| 137829 | 2003-04-22 09:32:00 | >> /boot (about 100M) Sorry but the boot partition only needs to be 24mb or less. Definately load XP first using the partition program that comes with it but only let XP partition for the size you want then when you install Linux you need at least three partitions. /boot about 24mb or less; /swap basically no greater than 512mb, if you have 1gb of ram you don't need a large swap file. I keep hearing how you need a swap file twice your ram but to me that makes no sense and the root partition which can take the remainder. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 137830 | 2003-04-22 09:41:00 | Mike> I agree, but to be safe, RedHat 9/8 sets it up to be that large, just in case. I also have 512 MB of RAM, and every time Ive run: #top Its come up saying its not using the SWAP file, so 128MB is more than enough for my cause of a desktop PC :-) I had a 166Mhz with 24MB RAM and it set the Swap file size to 196MB... So I'd suggest that for the majority of people, 196 is a max needed :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 137831 | 2003-04-22 09:50:00 | Hmmmmm.... Thinking about all this. Do you want your data accessible with both Win and Linux? This is data you have got or created yourself like pics out of the Digital camera, Scanned photos, MP3s downloaded. Docs created with Word, Excel, Notepad etc. If so then when you do the partitions make sure you use a file system that both Win and Linux can access for your data partition in particular. |
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