On Saturday 10 July 2004 14:19, Felix Miata wrote:
Make /boot a 75MB primary instead. Then, put Grub on it instead of the MBR.
How do I do that?
That way, if you ever need to reinstall windoze, after windoze makes its own primary active, preventing you from booting Linux, all you need do, which can be done with any of several DOS or windoze or Linux tools, is change the active partition back to /boot.
Is that an easier way that following the standard procedure suggested ny SUSE (boot in rescue mode etc)?
/swap swap 512 MB / ext3 10 GB /home ext3 50 GB
Is that OK?
/ really doesn't need to be so big for a typical installation. I've never installed "everything", so don't know if that might use it all up.
OK. Today my SuSE 9.0 system looks like this: janus@sputnik:~> df -h Filsystem Størr Brugt Tilb Brug% Monteret på /dev/hda5 9,9G 5,1G 4,3G 55% / /dev/hda9 99M 8,3M 86M 9% /boot /dev/hda8 91G 20G 67G 23% /home /dev/hda6 2,6G 1,1G 1,5G 43% /var tmpfs 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm / and /var takes up around 6 GB. I guess you are right.
I never make windoze the first partition on a multiboot system just as a matter of principle. That's like saying what M$ wants is most important. I make a maintenance partition /dev/hda1, the boot loader partition /dev/hda2, and windoze on /dev/hda3.
Linux is my primary OS. I only use Windows for iPod and home banking. The only reason why I place Windows first is that I heard that what best for Windows.
I never give any OS more space than it should need. This means C: is a tiny partition that windoze apps that assume C: will fill up trying to install, one or two logical cylinders, or 7.8 or 15.9 MB (/dev/hda3). Then D: is the windoze OS partition, around 4 GB on /dev/hda8, after swap on /dev/hda5, / on /dev/hda6 & /home on /dev/hda7, as I like to keep the Linux partitions together. E: for windoze data would go last on /dev/hda8.
How do I create those Windrives (C:, E: E: etc)? From YaST or from Windows? Janus --- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.