Hi Well you have 2 choices: Option 1 Just start a GNU / Linux installation and use Linux fdisk to: Delete the existing partition. WHICH WILL DESTROY ALL DATA, I SAID, ALL DATA WILL BE LOST. Create a partition for nearly the whole of the disk, leaving 120Mb or whatever you feel appropriate for swop space. There's plenty of discussion on using swop space with large amounts of RAM but my understanding is still to have some. Set the partition to type 83. which will be the default. Create the a partition in the free space to type 82. Now you can just go ahead and start the install. Option 2: Use partition Magic to resize the Windows drive and use the free space as in option 1. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jared Sent: 31 March 2002 21:54 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Memory Considerations I have a 4 gb drive as my d and a 19 gb drive with windows on it as my c drive with about 5 gb or less currently being used -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 9:43 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Memory Considerations 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 _______________________________________________ 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
