doobit
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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,16:16 |
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Also, here is some basic info that's relevant to DSL.
1. a DSL frugal install only needs around 50 MB for the root partition to store the DSL image. Make it about 250MB just in case you want to put a few extentions in there to start at boot. That should be your Primary and Boot partition in a Linux-only install.
2. You can only make 4 Primary partitions on an x86 based machine, but no problem, Linux likes logical partitions. The other advantage of logical partitions is they begin at hda5 which keeps them separate from your Primary partition(s). That's why I like to make one Primary boot partition and the rest logical. For DSL, you can have two logicals. The first should be a swap partition that's twice your RAM size. The second can be /home and /opt and should be your largest partition.
3. All of them will need to be formatted before you can use them. That's a separate process for your logical partitions, but DSL will format the boot partition for you when you install, if you want it to.
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