A little partitioning help, please!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: A little partitioning help, please!
started by: RandomGoon

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Posted by RandomGoon on May 07 2004,08:05

Here's the deal, I have an old 133MHz machine with 48MB RAM and a 2GB hard drive.  It's so old I had to make boot floppy to get into DSL (from which I'm posting right now; the old beast's alive!).  I've figured out how to get into cfdisk and change how the HDD is partitioned.  I just wondered, after reading about /boot, /swap, etc. how I should partition my drive for DSL?  I'm planning on completely blowing away my current FAT file system (DIE Win98!) so there's no worry about saving any data.

FYI, what I want to do is start downloading and installing small applications/games.  Just so I can get the hang of installations and troubleshooting if needed.

Thanks a heap,
'Goon

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Posted by skaos on May 07 2004,09:55

Unless you have some special needs, two partitions should be ok - one for swap (maybe 32-64 MB) and the rest of the disk as the root partition (a.k.a. known as /). When creating swap with cfdisk, remember to set the partition type to "82 Linux swap".

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Posted by RandomGoon on May 07 2004,18:40

Okay, thanks for the suggestion.  I didn't think it was necessary to do numerous partitions.  Should I make the root part. as /dev/hda1 and /swap as /dev/hda2 or vice versa?

'Goon

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Posted by RandomGoon on May 08 2004,20:45

Yeah!  I got it all installed!  I partitioned the hard drive with a ~2GB main and ~100MB for a swap partition.  Now all I have to do is get the ISA cards up and running, then it's on to installing new applications/games

'Goon

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