[ltp] Drive Set-up on a TP760ED

[JavaNick]

on 1/19/02 9:57 AM, James Hawtin at oolon@ankh.org wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, JavaNick wrote:
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>> / 70meg
>>> /var 52 meg
>>> /usr 1.2 gig could be pruned by about 100meg as I have 2 kernel source
>>> trees at the moment...
>> 
>> Do these partitions need to be at the front end or beginning of the hard
>> drive, meaning do I set up 1. 70 meg partition, then 2. 52 meg
>> partition......and then the Win98 partition last?
>> JavaNick
>> 
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> No in your case I would setup your window partion first, and deal with
> your windows install, then do a linux install, when asked for what
> partitions you want setup a swap partion of 128meg, then setup the rest of
> the disk to be one big partition that would be mounted as / your linux
> install will probably try to divide things up more... don't let it, you
> want One big partion as your disk is less that 8 gb in size you don't have
> a problem with the bios not being able to boot from the end of the disk
> (that happens after 8gb). So you can put thinsg in any order you like.
> 
> Have a play with your system, I always find when installing a new os, I
> have to install things a couple of times to get the sizes right.
> 
> You would have something like this
> 
> device        id
> /dev/hda1     b         windows
> /dev/hda2     82        linux swap
> /dev/hda3     83        linux
> 
> James
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I've heard horror stories about dual-boot systems. Mainly I've heard that
Windows does not like Linux being on the same drive, tries to save files to
Linux partitions, etc. Before I install Suse 7.3, is there any truth to
that? My system config BTW are: Thinkpad 760 ED 80RAM/3gb partitions(2) one
for each OS.
JavaNick
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