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01-24-2004, 10:08 PM
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Partitioning my 60Gig Laptop HD
I have an Inspiron 8500 with a 60 gig hard drive. I need some help figuring out how to partition my drive....i intend on loading linux on it as well, and store alot of archived files.....any suggestions?
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01-24-2004, 10:30 PM
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Depends on what windows OS. They need varying amount of space for the primary drive.
Would suggest 4 partitions minimum - one for windows, one for archive files, one for linux swap, one for linux.
Sizes? At least 20Gb for windows and windows apps, maybe 500MB for swab (depends how much RAM you have), 10 GB for linux and the rest for archived files.
Windows on primary partition, linux don't care what partition it's on.
A few suggestions only.
Cheers
Mick
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01-24-2004, 10:40 PM
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While Mick's suggestion about using four sounds good, I've ran three (Windows, Linux, Linux swap) and it's been fine for me.
This question is hard because first you need to know how you are going to be using each OS. Windows is a hog so allocate space for that first, then give whatever else you have to Linux.
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01-25-2004, 12:42 AM
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I would not suggest dual-booting a laptop.
If you haven't already, at the very least, I would suggest testing Linux on the laptop before committing to multibooting with it. Laptop hardware support is a bit here and there, and I would have low confidence of it working well.
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01-25-2004, 02:32 PM
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hmm, yeah thats very true. i am using a Dell Inspiron 8500, and i've seen several pages on the web refering to installing linux onto the system....there are a few tweak thats need be done, but nothing too painful.
sorry to change the topic here....but i was considering purchasing a desktop system, that i would just hide in a corner somewhere to use as a storage box? I would have it connected to my home network, and run as an FTP server so i could connect to it remotely....any comments on this? Think i woul be better off just getting an external USB drive instead????? Thanks for any help.
~jinsta.
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01-26-2004, 01:42 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by sechs
I would not suggest dual-booting a laptop.
If you haven't already, at the very least, I would suggest testing Linux on the laptop before committing to multibooting with it. Laptop hardware support is a bit here and there, and I would have low confidence of it working well. | I've gotten three versions of Linux to run on my Gateway with no problems, but it is an older one (700 PIII/Mobility Rage) so Linux may not have support *yet* for all the goodies inside a newer Dell.
Try it and see, it won't cost you anything but some time.
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