Re: [Sheflug] Harddrive question

[Mini Mike <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 January 2002 16:06, you wrote:
> Hello.
> I am going to get a new Harddrive, a 40gig, god knows why Ill need that
> much, but it seems the best value. Im wondering if there are any size
> limitation problems and how I should partition the thing. Im going to have
> to bung windows on it to get this camera Ive been banging on about working.
> I distinctly remember getting quite confused last time I partitioned a
> harddrive.
>
> Im using Kernel 2.4.17 and the Hardware howto says the harddrive should
> work fine "with newer kernels."
>
> Cheers

Richard,

I don't belive there are any major issues with the disk space.  Windowz, 
being the fussiest OS should be placed in the first primary partition.  If 
you are installing 9x I would use DOS Fdisk, Fips or Partition Magic to 
create your FAT32 partition and then install windowz.  If you are installing 
NT/2000 and you want to use NTFS, you should be OK to partition from within 
windowz installer or use Partition Magic and maybe Fips (not sure if it 
supports NTFS.)  After installing windowz, start the Linux installer and you 
should be able to partition your disk.  If you are using a recent distro you 
should be able to get away with just creating a swap partiton and a / 
partition, preferably formating as reiser fs if supported.  If you have an 
old distribution, you will also need to create an ext2 /boot partition within 
the first 8Gb of the drive.  This can either be at the end of your FAT32 
partition if it is less than 8Gb or if not, you will need to chop the FAT32 
partition in two and have a c: and a d:.  This will need to be done before 
installing windows using either Fips or Partition Magic.

I hope that this helps and isn't too confusing, but different partitioning 
strategies need to be employed based on OS type and versons.  If this is too 
confusing, drop a reply with your windowz and Linux versions and the size of 
partitions you are looking to create and I'll talk you though a more specific 
partitioning stragegy.

Regards,



Mike.
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