How do you propose getting 13+6 gb out of a 4 gb drive? Greg On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:08:59AM -0800, Jared wrote: > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
