i used to have slackware 9.0, but i took that out last week and now i'm going to install slackware 9.1, but the thing is i totally forgot how to do it, i just need a few hints like which partitions to make, and some info like this, if u can help me, i'd apreciate it a lot, thank you.

Scarface

are you dual booting?

If not than the simplest way to partition is to make a swap partition and use the rest for root filesystem. You can get more complicated from there. For example, you can create a separate partition for /usr, or /home.

If you're dual booting, then obviously you'll need to leave a partition(s) for whatever else you have or want to install.

yes i am dual booting, and i already know that i have to make a swap partition, a boot partition(i think), and a root partition, and i know that the root partition should be the biggest of the 3. but what i don't know is what size to make the other 2, and theres some other stuff with the installation that i'm not sure about yet either, so plz if you can help me.

it would be gratefull, and i would greatly appreciate it!
Scarface

If you want to, you could just make a / & swap file systems,

swap 2x's the amount of ram, no need to really make this more than 1gig, kind of a waste after that.

/ = the rest of the space.

You could make a /boot if you want to, doesn't need to be very large, 100-200MB is VERY generous, /usr and /home depends on really how big your drive is? How much space to you have to play with?

thats the downfall on my computer, i ONLY have 15 gb , and i'm using 6gb on windows, cuz my family also uses the computer, so i guess that leaves about 9 gb for me, and i know that's not a lot, but thats all i have right now!

9GB seems plenty to me. Really, 1GB of swap is absurd. I think 256MB is probably more than enough for you. I doubt you'll need more than 4GB for / and then the rest can go to /home or maybe separate data partition.

ok, but it seems that just the installation takes up to about 2-3 gb's and then sometimes it make the computer run slow, and that god damn hard drive makes a lot of noise (quantum fireball) i don't know what to do, anyways thanx for the advice quatsch.

A 'Full' install of slack9.1 takes about 3GB on my HD. But this comes with lots of different desktop environments, loads of software I will never use etc. You could make your / 5GB. You'll have 2GB of free space which seems plenty to me.

this is how i installed slackware 9.1

/tmp 64 megabytes
swap 384
/var 96
/ 384
/usr 2048
/home 256
/boot 16

with these sizes none of my partitions are over 33% in use except /usr which is at 87%
and probably could use another gig or so
swap amount depends mostly on the amount of memory in your computer
i have 512megs and it hardly uses the swap, and until i scan some photo at 10000 dots per inch or do some heavy compiling it probably won't
same goes for /tmp and sorta for /var
theres a way to share your swap partition with your windows swap file too so you could save some space that way

ok thnx quatsch, and fascistchicken for all your help and advice, i really appreciate it, now i'm gonna go and finally do it, i hope it works.

Do you know where i can get ALSA(sound program) because i searched on google and it brought to someones server where there were A LOT of files, and i had no idea which one(s) i needed, if anyone knows a good URL where it'd be easy to find, plz let me know, k thnx.

Scarface

is there anyone that knows, if so plz hellp me, i really need it, and i will greatly appreciate it!

Scarface

Slack 9.1 comes with ALSA.

oh man im in a real problem now, i installed 9.1, but didn't install all the other stuff i need ex. gnome, and stuff, so now i don't know what to do , should i try to reinstall slackware or is there an easire alternative, if so plz let me know ASAP. it will be greatly appreciated.

Scarface

I was thinking ALSA was on disk 1 and just KDE and Gnome were on disk 2. Anyway - just mount your cd, change there, run 'pkgtool', and add what you'd like. No need to reinstall - just keep installing.

Hm. Well, you might also need to re-run certain portions of the install scripts, which are also accessible through pkgtool, or fix them manually. If that didn't work, then maybe you'd need to start over, but you should probably be okay. First just put the packages in and see what happens.