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DSL CD Content : you don't need a new fat32 partition, you can use an existing one while booting with an MS-DOS\Win98 rescue boot floppy that you copied loadlin to and use it to run DSL on the HD.

Swap: 128MB Linux Native Swap (83) - you can build the partition with fdisk on windows to be fat, and then use fdisk\cfdisk to change it to swap, then use mkswap and swapon from within DSL to use it while installing and afterwards.

Target\installation: 128mb should do fine if your planning on storing your files on the windows fat partition.

The fist partition should be a bit bigger than 50 MB - you need 50 MB plus room for dos or windows. The size of swap depends on how much memory you have. The partition type of the two last doesn't matter when you create them with dos/windows (in fact you don't need to create them at all), you have to use cfdisk within DSL to set the correct partition types (and create them if you didn't do it with dos/windows).

Quote (skaos @ Nov. 10 2006,05:46)

...The size of swap depends on how much memory you have....

I was not aware of this, I thought people were simply using 100-125 MB HDD for swap.

What is the relation of physical RAM and swap partition size? 2 MB swap per 1 MB RAM ?

The machine in question has only 24 MB RAM, should I make the swap file 50 MB ?

Quote (skaos @ Nov. 10 2006,05:46)

...in fact you don't need to create them at all...

Could you explain this? If I don't create the partition for swap drive wouldn't performance suffer?

Thank you,
Craig

You absolutely need swap and 50 MB should be ok (you'll probably run out of patience long before you run out of swap space).

I guess I was a bit unclear about making the partitions, you can either:
1. Create 3 partitions with dos/windows and afterwards use cfdisk in DSL to set the correct partition types for the two linux partitions (dos/windows doesn't know about linux).
2. Create one dos partition with dos/windows and use cfdisk in DSL to create and set partition types for the two last.

re: swap

The more the better. It adds to the virtual memory that the system can use, although it's very slow. Of course if you don't plan on using a lot of memory, then you can use a smaller size.

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