doobit
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Posted: Mar. 27 2006,19:30 |
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If you don't want to keep Windows, then the easy thing is to delete that partition, then write, then create some new partitions. When you create new partitions you will be presented with size, and type variables. I would make the first linux partition a primary partition so it will be hda1, and bootable. I would also make it bigger than 50MB. That is the minimum for a Frugal install. Make it 250MB, since you have the space. That will leave you a little room to put a few applications in the top directory so they will autoload at bootup with mydsl.
The other two partitions can be extended linux partitions which will make them hda5 and hda6. Make hda5 twice as large as your RAM, and a swap partition, and hda6 with the rest of the free space, as a standard linux partition. Then write the partition table with the write command in cfdisk. Then you will need to format the two extended partitions (DSL will format the first one when you install). There are formatting instructions you can find here in the forum using Search. Basically you will open a terminal in DSL and use | Code Sample | | mkswap /dev/hda5 |
and | Code Sample | | mke2fs -J /dev/hda6 |
to make a journaling linux file system on hda6. You may also need to do | Code Sample | | swapon -a /dev/hda5 |
but DSL usually turns on the swap at the first boot after install. I hope this helps and anyone here can correct my errors.
If you want to make a dual boot system with Windows, then you need to use qparted or something like it to shrink your Windows partition enough to put DSL on the hard drive. Then you should use a Frugal grub or lilo install.
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