i want to install slackware but i'm unsure of the best way of dividing my 120 gb hard-drive, i no i need a swap also, i want to put my home folder on a separate partition but a little unsure on how to do this

i would be grateful on any help

The size of the swap is up to the size of the memory on your computer, do you going to have only Slackware installed ?

yes i'm just going to have slackware installed, also, lilo does this have to be installed on the first partition?

Install LILO to your MBR.

there are approximately 673 different ways to partition--and most of them have no real advantages....

All you really NEED is "/" and "swap". The installer should give you choices of what partitions to create and where to mount them. With a big drive like that, leave some empty space, so you can odd stuff later without resizing.

One typical setup would be:
/boot 100MB
/ 6GB
/home 20GB and up, depending on how much data you are going to be storing
swap 1.5X RAM size, but not more than ~1GB (put swap at the end of the drive so it doesn't get in the way when you are adding more partitions later)

There is one advantage of using a simple / and swap method. You don't have to worry about whether you allocated enough space for /home /var etc...

thanks for all your replies ... it's really helped...