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dishawjp:
Hi All,

I decided to finally take the plunge today and purchased a copy of Red Hat 6.2.  Actually, the CD's came with a Linux book I bought yesterday.  So anyway, I took one of my older Windows computers, a P166 with a 2GB hard drive and popped the CD in.  The install was going quite well until I hit the Disk Druid partitioner.  Evidently there are 4 small hidden partitions on this hard drive.  The computer is a Compaq Deskpro 2000 and it looks like these were put there by COmpaq.  Anyway, I couldn't get the Disk Driud utility to allow me to continue with the install.  I suppose that I could use DOS fdisk to eliminate all the hidden partitions. But... this Disk Druid utility wants me to define the partition sized for all the partitions on hda.  That's fine, except I don't know how much space to allocate to partitions like / and /boot and /usr and /home and /var all those.  Should I even need all these partitions or could they just be directories after I get hda formatted to Linux?

Sorry for all these stupid questions, but I've had it with M$ and need to get started with Linux.  I hope to migrate away from all M$ apps in my office by the end of the year if I can, and at home a lot sooner than that.

TIA for any advice.

Jim

rtgwbmsr:
Solution to your "hidden partition problem":
Go into FDISK (if you have a copy) and delete everything you see.

Disk Druid should show everything as free space, and just allocate 2 partitions. One for "/" in JournalistFS (or something like that) and another (preferably at the end) as swap space.

Good luck, and we are here if you need help!

-Dustin

dishawjp:
Thanks Justin,

How large should I make each of the partitions?  The hard drive is a 2 GB.

Jim

TheQuirk:
I would make three partions:

First partion (beginning) 15 mb partion, "/boot".
Second partion: twice the amount of your ram, "/swap"
Third, and last partion: the rest, "/". And I would use ext2 and the file system (or ext3 if 6.2 has that).

As for fdisk, muffin man told you the answer.

dishawjp:
Thanks All for your help.  I got the drive partitioned and formatted and got Red Hat installed.  Still a few problems though.  The one I'd like to solve first is how to adjust the screen resolution when running Gnome.  When I had Win98 on this thing, I was running 1024x768.  WIth Gnome running it looks like I'm at about 400x600 or so. The Icons on the desktop are about 1 1/2 inches in diameter!

I couldn't find any way to set it using the GUI, and would be willing to reset it in console.  I just need to know which config file to edit and which lines to change.

Thanks again for all your help.

Jim

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