Have you heard this one before...

[jbell]

I got my new HD today... 40GB of raw storage and *ahem* Linux useage finally!

I will try to track down the old posts but this will be easier....
I will set up the correct partitions but this is what the drive is going to be used for or what I want it used for.

the Linux sector - I need 3 right? and the rest will be windows storage or even Win2K PRO

[tbirdkiri]

i dont think so....
im new to this so i might be wrong but why would you need 3?

[jbell]

a swap directory, an install dir and a user dir

[nihili]

Distros differ on this point, but Mandrake defaults to three. In addition to the primary partiion, there is a swap partition and a /home partition. The point of the /home partition is so that you can do a reformat and reinstall of the OS without losing your documents.

nihili

[jbell]

Originally posted by nihili
Distros differ on this point, but Mandrake defaults to three. In addition to the primary partiion, there is a swap partition and a /home partition. The point of the /home partition is so that you can do a reformat and reinstall of the OS without losing your documents.

nihili

hey Nihili whats up! - this is what I have so far

on 2nd HD
Partition
#1-1.5gb for /home
#2-8gb for /usr
#3-500mb for /swap

[jbell]

it WILL be Mandrake 8.2 as soon as their lazy butts send me the copy I paid for!

[jbell]

WWWWWOOO HOOOOOOOO I broke 600 posts with this one!

[XWRed1]

That partition arrangement sounds fine to me.

[jbell]

the remaining 28gb is saved for windows

[nihili]

Are you asking for advice on how to do the partitions? WHat distro are you using?

I'm not sure what you mean by these are on the second partition, but I'll take a guess.

It looks like you've set aside 30 gigs for windows accessible storage. Keep things there that you'll want to access from both Windows and Linux. My understanding is that Linux has trouble with NTFS, so you'll want to stay with Fat32.

With the remaing you need a swap partion, a / partition and a /home partition. You can technically do it on a single partition, but using three has some advantanges and it's what Mandrake defaults to if that's the distro you're using.

If it were me, I'd let Mandrake decide on it's own swap space, it's pretty good at it. But other than that your setup looks fine. I would probably cut back to 6 gig on / and give myself more room in /home. But I'm pretty document intensive.

nihili

[nihili]

If you're on a good connection you can download Mandrake and get started on it tonight.

nihili

[jbell]

I have broadband - pretty solid slowest tested so far has been around 900k highest around 1.4-1.5mb

[XWRed1]

My understanding is that Linux has trouble with NTFS, so you'll want to stay with Fat32.


Linux only has trouble writing to NTFS, it can read from it fine.

[nihili]

sounds like a trip to mandrake.com is in order to get the download version while you wait for the box in the mail

nihili

[jbell]

I will jump my /home to 3gb
and will leave the 8gb partition alone - I have 80Gb total to play with

[jbell]

Originally posted by nihili
sounds like a trip to mandrake.com is in order to get the download version while you wait for the box in the mail

nihili

****jumps into batmobile****

[jbell]

I will download Linux later - IE6 is giving me problems .. I dunno might just wait for my cd's to arrive in the mail.


Joe

[XWRed1]

Not a terribly bright idea to download something as large as an iso through a web browser, unless your connection is REALLY fast.

[David]

I tend to stick with two partitions for Linux. I don't know why, but its probably because it gives me more freedom, in case my partition sizes are wrong. Anyway, I don't have that many important docs in /home (only my website ;-) and I do regular backups.

[XWRed1]

Here's my partition setup:

/dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/reiser type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/ntfs type ntfs (rw,gid=100,uid=1000)
/dev/sdb2 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sdb3 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /usr/local/games type reiserfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /proc type proc (rw)

There's one more swap partition too, don't know why its not listed there.

[jbell]

I ahve a wireless broadband connection - it is really fast and also I found out mandrake is backedup by almost 2 weeks so it should be here soon

[PhoenixMDM]

Originally posted by XWRed1
Not a terribly bright idea to download something as large as an iso through a web browser, unless your connection is REALLY fast.

Err.. don't slap me, but if you don't DL through a browser like IE, then how...?

Do you mean use an FTP client? If so, i need a decent freeb one for windows... lol

[Yodums]

I download through IE 6..

IF you want a free FTP program WS_FTP is free and its pretty good does its job.

[PhoenixMDM]

Yeah, i use IE6 too, fastest IE yet, IMO. I'd have to say that's one more good thing about microsoft, the IE stuff, but that's about it, lol.