On Sunday 30 January 2005 21:42, 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. > Delete it. (the other primary unformatted partition that is) You want to make your own boot, swap and root partitions in its place in unpartitioned space. > 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. > > Thanks.
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