On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:17 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > 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 I mostly agree with what you said, but /tmp is not the place to skimp this much. Whenever you burn CDs/copy CDs, or do lots of other stuff the temporary scratch space is /tmp. I would recommend 1gb or as others have suggested, for a laptop with likely only one user and only a 10gb drive use 3 partitions. /boot, swap, and / and it should work well. In fact, that is the configuration on mine and has been for over a year. > > /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. > > -- > James McKenzie >
