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I am planning to install Slackware 9.1. I already have Windows XP and Mandrake 10. The idea is to install it on a 10Gb partition. So, what I need are some advices on how to partition.
1) How do you recommend me to prepare that partition in order to install Slackware? I mean using partition magic, for instance.
2)Do I have to create subpartitions for /home, etc? Please, if someone with experience installing Slackware could help me, I will be very grateful. A detailed explanation is what I need.
How do I add Slackware to my already installed Lilo? What I want is to be able to choose -at boot up- among Windows XP; Mandrake and Slackware.
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
Posts: 5,296
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since mandrake is already installed, using diskdrake to create the partitions would probably be the most user friendly method. as far as partitioning schemes go, you could see 1000's but here is a general guide
If your mandrake installation is already using a swap partition then the slack install will detect it and ask you if you want to use that. Then just use your 10Gb partition and the installer will ask you where to mount / so just use that partition.
b) Ask 5 people you'll get 6 answers Personally I have a shared swap, boot on hda and just use / for my slackware, I haven't bothered splitting it down. Really I just followed what was written in the Gentoo instructions when I installed that a while back.
On my pc I have on /dev/hda
/boot 32Mb ext2
/swap 512Mb
/ linux 30 odd Mb
And I did have Gentoo on hdb sharing the swap on hda until I toasted it
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