A friend of mine has a computer loaded with M$ Windows. She would like to try Linux but does not know how much room to make on the disk by partitioning (and whether SuSE will do the job for her or whether she should use Partition Magic). Where is there a guide that I can give her that will answer her questions? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA Whatever is not forbidden is permitted -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller -- Wallensteins Lager
El Jueves, 6 de Abril de 2006 07:44, Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:
A friend of mine has a computer loaded with M$ Windows. She would like to try Linux but does not know how much room to make on the disk by partitioning (and whether SuSE will do the job for her or whether she should use Partition Magic). Where is there a guide that I can give her that will answer her questions?
-- Best regards,
Dennis J. Tuchler
I have installed SUSE 9.0 and SUSE 10.0 in VMWare using 4 GB virtual disks. I do development using C++ and not much more with each one. Depending on what she wants to do with it and wether she may decide to do most her work under Linux, 10 Gb might be a suitable size. YMMV. Regards. -- Alfredo Cole-Tuckler
Alfredo Cole wrote:
El Jueves, 6 de Abril de 2006 07:44, Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:
A friend of mine has a computer loaded with M$ Windows. She would like to try Linux but does not know how much room to make on the disk by partitioning (and whether SuSE will do the job for her or whether she should use Partition Magic).
I have installed SUSE 9.0 and SUSE 10.0 in VMWare using 4 GB virtual disks. I do development using C++ and not much more with each one. Depending on what she wants to do with it and wether she may decide to do most her work under Linux, 10 Gb might be a suitable size. YMMV.
Regards. I have a dual boot system, XP and Suse 9.3. My hard drive is a mere 20g, so I split it 50/50, 10g for XP and 10g for Suse. I have both KDE and GNOME installed. I still have 2g free to install whatever I like. I used Partition Magic, then booted with the install CD. The installation detected the empty partition, installed there fine with a swap partition. Works like a dream.
- James W.
Alfredo Cole wrote:
El Jueves, 6 de Abril de 2006 07:44, Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:
A friend of mine has a computer loaded with M$ Windows. She would like to try Linux but does not know how much room to make on the disk by partitioning (and whether SuSE will do the job for her or whether she should use Partition Magic). Where is there a guide that I can give her that will answer her questions?
-- Best regards,
Dennis J. Tuchler
I have installed SUSE 9.0 and SUSE 10.0 in VMWare using 4 GB virtual disks. I do development using C++ and not much more with each one. Depending on what she wants to do with it and wether she may decide to do most her work under Linux, 10 Gb might be a suitable size. YMMV.
Regards.
About how much empty space is needed for M$ Windows to function properly? I ask because one of the things I think she will have to do is partition her HD so that there is room for installing Linux. -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA Whatever is not forbidden is permitted -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller -- Wallensteins Lager
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Alfredo Cole wrote:
El Jueves, 6 de Abril de 2006 07:44, Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:
A friend of mine has a computer loaded with M$ Windows. She would like to try Linux but does not know how much room to make on the disk by partitioning (and whether SuSE will do the job for her or whether she should use Partition Magic). Where is there a guide that I can give her that will answer her questions?
-- Best regards,
Dennis J. Tuchler
I have installed SUSE 9.0 and SUSE 10.0 in VMWare using 4 GB virtual disks. I do development using C++ and not much more with each one. Depending on what she wants to do with it and wether she may decide to do most her work under Linux, 10 Gb might be a suitable size. YMMV.
Regards.
About how much empty space is needed for M$ Windows to function properly? I ask because one of the things I think she will have to do is partition her HD so that there is room for installing Linux. You will probably want at least 15g if you want to use the hibernate feature and have room for applications. Most likely I would split the hard drive 50/50, depending on the size of the hard drive.
- James W.**** <http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=44>
Il giorno gio, 06/04/2006 alle 15.29 -0400, James Wright ha scritto:
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
About how much empty space is needed for M$ Windows to function properly? I ask because one of the things I think she will have to do is partition her HD so that there is room for installing Linux.
You will probably want at least 15g if you want to use the hibernate feature and have room for applications. Most likely I would split the hard drive 50/50, depending on the size of the hard drive.
Totally agree on this. If she want to use M$, office suite, fixed swap file and hibernate {obvously disabling the "rescue" tools} and thinks to have an installation lifetime of 10+ months i can say she has to stick with a minimum of 20GB. -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://koolinus.wordpress.com http://www.koolinus.net "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." Linux Registered User #293182
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