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I need help installing Fedora Core 3 on my
laptop.
My goal is to learn Linux enough to stop
using windows.
I have win2k on my laptop. PIII
~900MHz. 512MB ram. 20GB hard drive. Currently win2k only has 10001MB of
my hard drive. Under windows, there is another primary partition that is
unformatted.
I inserted the FC3 cd and rebooted. I
got to the point where the Anaconda wizard tries to partion the remaining
portion of my hard drive for me. I get an error that says something about
not being a primary partition or something. So I use Disk Druid to setup
the partitions like the Book I'm using suggests.
I'm reading the text by Sobell, "Practical
Guide to Red Hat Linux".
The text suggests the following for
partions:
/boot 100
megabytes
/ 500
megabytes
(swap) two times the
amount of ram
/home As large as
necessary, depends upon # of users
/tmp Minimum 100
megabytes
/usr Minimum
1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install
/var Minimum 500
Megabytes
Well you've probably already guessed that
the / account is too small, I get an uncaught exception error that says I should
have had 2515MB of space for the root partition. There are three choices,
if I remember correctly and I chose "OK", which froze the laptop and I hard to
do a hard boot to restart the laptop.
I am only installing the default packages
to learn what is there before I do a custom install.
Can someone recommend a better partion
schema for an approximate 10 GB hard drive?
I would appreciate the list's
help.
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