I wish to partition my hard drive the c drive in to a 13 gig chunk for windows running fat32 and a six gig chunk running x2. I wish to do this with partition magic. I'm running a selleron 501 megeherts processor and have 256 megs of sd ram. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Georgina Joyce Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:46 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Memory Considerations Hi I'm a little confused what the questions are on this thread. You can run X Windows on a 486 with 8Mb ram. If you have a machine with a 4Gb hard drive I'm guessing that you have more RAM thanthat. It appears that you have Windows on a 4Gb hard drive. Well, how much has it used. What is important is how much free disk space do you have and the memory, I guess, if you have less than 16Mb, which I suspect is not the case. If you're going to go ahead with a Linux installation you need to run defrag then resize your Windows partition smaller to create free space but back up I said, BACK UP all your critical data. Please state clearly what you currently wish to do with what resources. Gena -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jared Sent: 31 March 2002 11:10 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Memory Considerations Ok I accually am going to put x-windows on my machine for some of my sighted friends to be able to use. How will this effect the memory needed? I will probibly be putting it on a seporate partition on meyc drive then for more room. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:09 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Memory Considerations On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote: > All I have is a 4 gig drive that was what came with this. Could I install > redhat on this drive and have enough room to spair. I'm running Debian on a 2 gig drive. I'm running out of space now, but that's with 3 years worth clutter on there as well (and this system supports 2 uers as well). So I'd definitely say yes, especially if you don't want Xwindows (which you probably don't). > Cood I then read off my > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? Yep. > If I use x2 for a file > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? Urrrr. I don't understand the question. Filesystems are on partitions, not drives. So you could have an ext2 filesystem and a fat32 filesystem on seperate partitions on the same drive. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> ICQ number 43634701 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
