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Please give a suggestion for Red Hat installation

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Faust:
I thought writing to NTFS was possible, just experimental?  Anyway, the default redhat partitioning of your free space is good, but just FYI ext3 and swap will be what it uses.  (So thats probably what 82 and 83 are.)  BTW three Windows partitions???  You certainly aren't going to have much left for programs on those little 2 gig partitions... ???

Calum:
"just experimental"? experimental sounds pretty damn dodgy to me!

i saw void main once said that the read/write support for NTFS in linux should more appropriately be called read/obliterate support, and that's good enough for me...

sime:
Eeek,

I hope it doesn't create a 2GB swap partition ... Kind of over kill. The norm is to take RAM and * by 2 so if you have 128MB of ram you would end up with a 256MB swap partition which should be more than adequate. So he should end up with 2 partitions 1 3.blah and one small swap partition roughly twice the size of his available RAM

The idea of the swap is so the OS can write out 64K blocks of memory to disk and read them in when necessary. If the swap partition is not there and you actually push the machine then it will end up spending it's time thrashing rather than doing any real work.

The NTFS must have been experimental for ages now but hey it's Linux (and Linus is a GOD) so it will probably be more reliable than an official MS$ released bit of software.

The partition types i.e. 82 and 83 are just that partition types. ext2, ext3, swap etc are file systems  types that can sit on top those partitions. So I could create a partition type of 83 (Linux) then I could put an ext2 file system onto that partition type or an ext3 (or others). The partition type would still be type 83 but the file systems running on the partition would be different depending on my choice e.g. I would choose ext3 if I wanted a journaling capable file system.

The poor fella or lass that asked the question is probably confused to hell by now  :D

Hey Calum, do you have a degree in music? if so do you play a guitar?

Later

Sime

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