Re: Partition help

Leo Donahue wrote:

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

I have a / (also referred to as root) partition of about 1.5 GB which holds everything except /tmp, /opt, /tmp, /usr and /var. You should be able to get away with only 1 GB of space here.

(swap) two times the amount of ram

You are running a laptop, .%5 GB will do just fine.

/home As large as necessary, depends upon # of users

You plan on having a large number of users? If only one or two, roll this into your / directory

/tmp Minimum 100 megabytes

I'm running 2 GB with only 3% used. I would recommend keeping this at 100MB

/usr Minimum 1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install

This is where most of your system will live. Make this about 4 GB if you plan on installing a 'typical' workstation installation.

/var Minimum 500 Megabytes

I made this 2 GB again.  I recommend making this 1.5 GB.

Adjust these as necessary to set up your 10GB partition.

Again, /boot MUST be within the first 1024 cylinders, or your system will NOT boot to LINUX. All of the other files can be anywhere on your system.

Good luck installing LINUX.

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James McKenzie