RE: help partitioning

Wolfgang Gill <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:31:02 +1100

Title: Message

For 
the purpose of learning Linux. I would leave the partitioning to linux. It will 
create 3 partitions, 1 boot, 1 swap and the rest is for /.

RH8.0 
install will automatically create the XP booting ability in GRUB, so that you 
can boot back to windows if you wish. I would leave the complex HDD patitioning 
till you better understand linux. 

I run 
a Linux RH8.0 & WinXP dual boot system here. I basically have XP on it due 
to the office setup is running Win2K server (Exchange mail etc), otherwise I 
would not have bothered with it.

That 
is my suggestion, and others may have other opinions.

Wolf

 -----Original Message-----
From: 
valeed [mailto:valeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 
6:25 PM
To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: help 
partitioning 

  hi , 
  I have a 40gb hdd , 128mb ram , pentium 4 1000mhz 
  hp pc 
  of the 40gb i have made two logical 
  partitions , of 22 gb & 18gb 
  22gb is reserved for windows xp , & on 18gb I 
  wish to install Linux 8.0 , 
  i want to have a dual boot & keep the windows 
  xp as it is till I learn more & feel comfortable with Linux as I am 
  new to this. 
  please if someone can guide me to partition 
  the 18gb for installing Linux 

  I have downloaded the psyche-i386-iso images 
  & created 3 cds reqd for installation , please reply me with the 
  calculation as to how  much is reqd for diff partitions in 
  linux

  what are the partitions i should create , & 
  how much each partition should be allocated 
  is there any calculation by which it becomes 
  easy to allocate the reqrd space for the said partitions 
  should i create all the partitions as mentioned 
  below or is there anything else i should know please guide me 

  /
  /boot
  /home
  /swap
  /usr
  /usr/local
  /tmp
  /var

  Have a nice day 

  regards 

  Valeed 

  valeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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