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Partitioning hd for linux
Name: Mac2005 Date: February 26, 2005 at 22:09:40 Pacific OS: Gentoo2004.3/XP CPU/Ram: 1.6GHz/512MB
Comment:
I have 40GB harddisk and it has 7GB primary partition hda1 that has Windows XP installed.
The windows partitions size is 7GB because I read somewhere that grub can jump to linux partition only if the first partition is less than 8GB.
How should i partition the rest for gentoo linux installation?
Name: eskiled Date: February 27, 2005 at 08:39:42 Pacific
Reply:
read the gentoo installation manual on www.gentoo.org it has an entire section devoted to partitioning the system for installation.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: February 28, 2005 at 02:46:27 Pacific
Reply:
To keep things simple create two more primary partitions, one for swap (approx the same as amount of RAM) and the rest for root (aka "/"). Once you a familiar with GNU/Linux and know what directories on your system are going to grow etc then you can think about possibly creating more. For a more in depth info check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html
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