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Help me! I'm spoiled by Win98 but i want Linux!
Faust:
For Your Information X11 the above URL for linux help is wrong... should be www.linuxhelp.net
Please correct it so you don't frustrate people who click on the link expecting help...
Lennon:
Wow those posts really put a smile on my face
Thank you so much!
I might consider wrapping all this up and making a quick FAQ for all the people who decide to convert to Linux but need such basic answers. Or maybe someone else could make it! These answers helped so much I'm already a HUGE fan of the infamous penguin!
Now. I have a 40GB hard drive, with only one main drive (C currently taking up 38 GB.
First I'll burn some of my data on some CDs and clean up a little.
So should i do this?:
What I'll do during the installation is make following partitions:
C: - boot, 85 MB (In case I need Red Hat sometime)
D: - for windows 98, 25 GB
E: - Root for Linux Mandrake 9.1, 14 GB
F: - Swap fof Linux, approx. 1 GB
Questions (short answers will do):
-Can i just leave some of my files on C: (38 GB) and just split it up, leaving the windows crap where it belongs while surgically moving some folders to E: or should i make C: 25 GB or less in size and then create the other partitions?
-Can i do the partitioning in BIOS or is it always done in the installation process (which i start by booting from the CD)?
-How do i re-partition once i get a new 120 GB HD, or decide i want more room for Linux - can it be done without any harm?
Thanks in advance for any short answers/clues you might give me considering those questions. I'll do some searches online but not too much cos my (single 64k) ISDN is already downloading at full 7.6 KB/s (GetRight rulez) for 30 hours. I suppose Linux doesn't have a problem with ISDN btw?
Faust:
Glad that I could help... 8-)
Firstly windows will not recognize the partitions so you should only have a "C:" drive, which will be the windows one.
the partition scheme looks very workable...
it would also be nice for you to have the windows partition as fat32 as linux can read/write to that so you can store all files on that drive and access them from both systems.
1 ) splitting I have never done - i believe you resize the original partition lower leaving blank space elsewhere. maybe someone else would like to post a short how-to on partition resizing?
the easiest way for me was to back up all files onto cdr then just wipe the disk and start afresh but thats a bit drastic - i wasnt worried by it because I had already lost everything.
2 ) partitioning is done through the boot up process on the linux cd - mandrake / red hat make it pretty user friendly but it is good to be sure so feel free to reboot and remove the cd if you want to doublecheck with someone online, as before you do the partitioning nothing on your computer has changed. Both red hat and mandrake let you "plan out" your changes to the hard drive partitions and then actually write the changes after that.
3 ) you can just repartition the new 120 without affecting the original hard drive - if you decide you want to have more linux space you can always change the partition scheme and only those partitions you actually modify will be changed - ie you can change only "some" of the partitions at a time.
Lennon:
OK, those helped a lot! I read some stuff elsewhere too.
So once i do the partitioning from the install:
-Will i be able to access the drives other then C: from Windows? Will it even see them?
-What about access to drives from Linux, considering C: is fat32 right now?
Faust:
Linux will be able to read / write the FAT32 drives
WIndows will not even see the linux drives
BTW when you choose what to format the linux drives as, I suggest Ext3, Ext2 or ReiserFS (in that order.)
And... while I hate to admit this X11 is probably right re : the fact that youll have difficulty filling a 10G linux partition. 5 gig or so probably isnt too much too spare even if you dont need it and it will be difficult to fill... I just have large partitions because I can spare the space and it makes it much easier for me.
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