Nat Gross wrote:
And now...partioning...I need your HELP.
This is what I did so far.
1. Used Vista to 'shrink' two partitions.One the real ntfs part where
Vista is installed, the other a Vista recovery partition.
2. Booted the fc6 dvd and am trying to partion it properly, so that
Grub (or similar program) prompts with boot options.
Here is how anaconda sees the disk (1 disk).
MB
/dev/sda1 vfat 55 1 7
Rescue partition could be saved.
/dev/sda2 ntfs 7240 8 930
Seven Gigabytes sounds big enough for Vista. But with the 45 GB
partition below, why the 7 GB partition? you might draw it to be part of
the SDA3 partition and draw space off the later parts of the disk. This
is just a suggestion. I do not want you to mess up your system so
investigate why you have the two ntfs partitions.
FREE 3000 930 1313
/dev/sda3 ntfs 45703 1313 7139
FREE 37349 7139 11901
/dev/sda4 Extended 2048 11901 12162
/dev/sda5 vfat 2047 11901 12162
If dev SDA2 is not used for the OS, I would reformat dev sda2 to vfat
and use sda5 for Linux space.
I need a swap partion, bootloader (in addition to the one there)?, and
main / partition.
The bootloader can be installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record). The
swap partition can be included somewhere within the extended partition
container. (/dev/sda4, not real partition but information for sda5 and
greater)
I tried letting it do everything automatically, but it complained.
It is an outright incompetent program for automatic partitioning. You
are better off making a /boot partition in the early portion of your
drive of about 100 MB and a swap partition of about twice memory. For
home I would use a regular partition and for swap and / I would put
within an LVM. The LVM is good for stuff that is binary and pretty much
the same on all systems where blowing it away would not be major. Your
/home is for data which is different from computer to computer and
should be on a traditional partition.
Please advise.
Read up on /boot partitions, LVM2 and extended partitions and suggested
partition sizes.
Regarding VISTA, I like the resizing tool concept as part of the OS, the
/boot partition they now have and the lower privileges for applications
instead of admin for everything of helplessness for regular users. I
hated NT4 through XP, so the reading of those changes is comforting. It
will be sometime before I would have access to Vista though. I never
used it yet.
Jim
Thanks
nat
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