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Stupid Question | by mpicklesimer | 2001-07-19 07:15:32 |
| my 2c |
by pingpong |
2001-07-19 21:05:59 |
10G is plenty for a Linux just to play with.
First of all you should figure out how to free the diskspace for the Linux partitions. You should mind that not all partition-managers can cope with Win2K NTFS partitions. AFAIK you'll need the most recent versions.
I wouldn't bother with more than a swap, a root and an additional data partition.
Since you've got 256M RAM it's questionable that you really need swap at all. The thumb rule of swap = 2*RAM is a bit silly, I think.
Your System and applications will need a certain amount of memory to get loaded. This memory can consist of physical RAM and swap space. Stuff gets swapped when it can't fit in the RAM chips or when the system thinks it's the right thing to do.
Say besides the base system you want KDE, Netscape and OpenOffice at the same time. This needs probaply 100M.
An old 32M box would need this 32M ram + 68M swap (before it's hard disk goes up in flames) while your 256M system wouldnt need swap at all.
I install traditionally 128M swap though having 128M ram prevents swapping in most cases anyway.
If Linux gets swap space it kicks usually a few K out even if there is still a lot of RAM but it runs happily on 256M without swap. The only task I know to fill my 256M ram is burning CDs. Then the whole ram is used as buffer.
Btw, look at your Win2K. Mine gets almost never over 128M ram usage but it swaps anyway. What a waste of ram & time.
Your / partition can hold all the stuff you need if its 2G big. Go with 3G if you want to be on the safe side. You can always put some directories on another partition and link it where it belongs if you run low in space on /.
The remaining 5.8G could be used as a data partition and to store files you want to survice a system reinstall.
Another idea is to have 2 partitions with a complete system on it. Then you can try new programs and such before you mess up your productive system.
Booting Linux could be a bit tricky on a big disk when the system partition crosses or lies behind track 1024. At least older distributions come with a lilo (Linux Loader) which won't do that. You can always have lilo sitting on a floppy disk. It's tiny so that wont slow you down a lot.
Having a /boot partition doesn't make much sense if you can't put it below the 1024 limit or if your lilo can cross it.
If you are bold you could set lilo in the bootsector of your harddisk at youse it to boot Win2K aswell. At least SuSE 7.2 detects Win2K automatically and includes it in lilo.
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