Partitioning harddrives

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Partitioning harddrives
started by: Pc_Madness

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Posted by Pc_Madness on April 20 2004,02:59

Ello.  I plan on putting DSL onto my old Win95 computer (P75mhz, 64mb Ram, 500mb + 10gb Harddrive), and I've had a good play around with DSL from the CD (but not on that computer..), and I think it'd probably be a better OS to use than Win95.

So, basically to do a HD install, I need to push a button when DSL first starts (one of the F buttons?) and then I'd have to do the partitioning?  Does anyone have a good tutorial or something for doing this?

Basically the 500mb is the Primary drive and the 10gb is the secondary, so I was kinda hoping to just install to the 10gb and use the 500mb for storage or something.   Win95 is on the 500mb at the moment, so once I get DSL installed could I just delete the contents of the 500mb?  And what about Lilo picking that up during the install, can I just choose for it to forget that it exists.  

Finally, the 10gb is partitioned into 2gb partitions.  Will I have any trouble with that?


Sorry, little bit nervous with this computer, last time I tried to reinstall 95 the computer never came back.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Would it be possible to just format one of the 2gb partitions as Ext2 and install it to that? It'd probably be the easiest solution. :yes:

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Posted by AwPhuch on April 23 2004,16:20

I posted a HOWTO in the HOWTO section...cant be much harder to install using a cd than floppy!!

Check it out

Brian
AwPhuch

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