The 03.06.15 at 09:46, Sourian wrote:
The old/safe ;-) school will teach you that you need a swap doubling your RAM, and this is true is you run linux on an very old machine, with small memory. I myself am happy with the same amount.
That really applied to windows - I have a pentium machine with 32 Mb of ram and perhaps 600 mb swap, ie, 20 times :-) For linux, just have as much swap as you need - which is not very helpfull, I know.
As for partitioning, if you want to repartition your entire hard drive you should first run fdisk /mbr to clean the Master Boot Record which was written by SuSE and Win98 has problem reading it (!!!pay atention fdisk /mbr has to be run after booting from the rescue disk and WILL ERASE YOUR ENTIRE PARTITION TABLE, so you will lose all partitions - make backup).
Are you sure? I don't think it erases partitions tables, only the mbr boot program. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson