Am Di, den 09.03.2004 schrieb Pierre De Boeck um 23:13: > Hi all, > > I have just my new Dell inspiron 5150 and installed > XP and all the MS dev suite (.net,..) on a 25 GB partition of > my 60GB HDD. > > Now I want to install FC1 in dual boot on the rest (35GB) and > before to do that, I have a few questions to ask in order to avoid > to crash my XP installation. > > So my first question concerns partionning in FC1. Is the following > scheme seems correct: > /root: 50MB Can it be you mean an extra /boot partition? Id personally would not create this 50 MB /root but a ~ 76 MB /boot partition. > /swap: 1GB (I have 512MB DDR) swap = 2 * RAM is general advice, depending what you do 512 MB RAM would be ok too. > /:the rest (about 34GB). > > And particulary the size of the / partition: is it possible to use > 34GB or I have to limit it to some limit (as I read in RH, about 5GB)? There is no (this small) limit. For such a big partition you should choose a journaling filesystem like ext3, otherwise filesystem checking could last very long. > Once that issue is solved, I will come back with other questions regarding > the drivers and kernel recompilation. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 23:37:56 up 23:57, 7 users, 1.61, 1.29, 0.89 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars