partition

[Dokeman]

how do i need to partition my hdd for linux. I have a 20gig with a 10gig partition for win2k and want to set up linux. When i did the auto allocate thing in mandrake 8, it made a big partitin then a small one and then another big one. Is that right. That looked kinda goofy to me. Is there a better way to do it. I want to try redhat, and they dont have an auto partition option. Please list all steps and mount points and stuff like that.

[pbharris]

hello,
1. fdisk with windows. make one partition ntfs or fat32 and leave space over for linux, however much you want.

2. Install windows. If you install linux first windows will overwrite the MBR and you will have pains booting linux again.

3. Install linux. Using the space you did not make a partition on with windows make at least 2 partions using cfdisk, fdisk or another linux partitioning tool (both windows and linux have a partition tool called fdisk). One of these partions should be small (64M would be good) for swap space and the other will be the rest of the system.

3. Depending upon how much disk space you have you can choose to install everything, a server or workstation or of course a custom setup.

4. From here out is should be pretty self explanatory. I have redhat 7.1 and i was extremely impressed (i'll even say its awsome) at how well it did at picking everything up.

lilo will install to MBR and when you reboot you will have two options to boot -windows or linux (yummy!).


originally posted a month or so ago.

[This message has been edited by pbharris (edited 09-03-2001).]

[obenton]

The linux install creates several partitions for itself. The small one is for the swap file.

[lynchmob]

Hey,pbharris. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Wont doing a server install wipe everything off the hdd?Including windows?It was my understanding that a Linux server installation didnt want to share the hdd with anything else.So no Win9x/Linux server configuration is possible?
lynch