4gB is a bit tight if you intend to dual boot linux and Windows. If this is what you have to work with, do not install X as long as you intend to keep Windows. You'll need about 1gB for a full linux installation without X. You can access anyfiles in fat or fat32 partitions from linux. 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. Cood I then read off my > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? If I use x2 for a file > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? > > -----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 9:33 PM > To: Speakup Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Re: partition magic > > > Hi: > > Ext2 is a far superior file system to fat32, so use that for linux if you > at all can. > > I personally think that having linux on its own drive is far easier than > having it on the same drive as windows, so do that if you can. then > cylinders don't come into it. I've never done dual boot on the one drive > but I'm sure someone else here would have. > > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
