[plug] Debian 3.0

[Adrian Woodley]

My recommendatations in brief :-

/dev/hda1 - windows XP - 07
/dev/hda5 - /    200meg - 83
/dev/hda6 - /usr 1500meg to 2000meg - 83 (thats to fit a pretty full system with
things like OOo installed)
/dev/hda7 - /var 150meg (more if you want to print large docs) - 83
/dev/hda8 - /home remaining drive - 83
/dev/hda9 - swap - 82

As you'll be booting from lilo windows can go jump with regard to bootable
partitions. I'd also recommend reiserfs as your filesystem cause its sexy :)

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Computer & IT
www.Diskworld.com.au

Australian Linux Conference, Perth 2003
http://conf.linux.org.au


Quoting James Elliott <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>:

> I am about to install the latest version of Debian on my new AMD 1800XP
> computer (well, not exactly new ... and upgrade).
> 
> When I previously installed it on the AMD 233 MHz CPU model the only part of
> the installation I was unsure of was in the partitioning of the hard disk.
> 
> I have 50% allocated to Windows XP because unfortunately I need it for my
> work for the time being.
> 
> When partitioning the other 50%, what do I need?
> a boot partition
> a user partition, and
> a swap partition?
> 
> You cannot have a boot partition if Windows is already bootable - is that
> right?  (Otherwise Windows gets confused ???)
> 
> Also, in the partitioning software which comes with Debian (cfdisk, I think
> it is called) you need to nominate the type of each Linux partition and the
> choices are:
> 
> 82  native Linux
> 83  Linux ext
> 85  Linux swap
> 
> I might have the numbers mixed up, but I can check that out when I get to
> that part.
> 
> Obviously the SWAP partition is "Linux Swap" in type ....
> but what do you use for the other partitions? - Linux ... or Linux Ext ?
> 
> I would be grateful for any help with these matters.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> James Elliott
> 
> 
>