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Originally Posted by johnslack
Hi,
I have a Dell laptop with XP Intel Pentium M and 1 GB Ram. I reduced my NTFS down and have about 61 GB to play with on the HD. I would like to put SlackWare and Fedora in that space.
First question, would a 2 GB Swap, 18 GB ext3 for root of SlackWare, 25 GB ext3 for root of Fedora, 26 GB FAT 32 for data, plus the two existing XP NTFS partitions be a reasonably breakdown. The existing are primary partitions, will any of the others need to be primary partitions.
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'2GB' is a lot of swap space, you could get away with '1GB'. '18GB' for Slackware is more than enough.
You should read the text files for the release, I'm assuming your considering Slackware 12.2 since that is the Stable at this time.
RELEASE_NOTES ,
CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT and
UPGRADE.TXT are available on the cd/dvd.
I personally like to setup my system with multiple partitions. I use the first as a working primary then the second as a swap. With the third being a experimental primary with about 20GB. I then use the forth as a extended that I will setup multiple logical partitions to support that system, look at the following sample;
Code:
:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf5b5f5b5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3825 4074 2008125 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 4075 10300 50010345 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 10301 60801 405649282+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 10301 10425 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 10426 11671 10008463+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 11672 12668 8008371 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 12669 12918 2008093+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 12919 13915 8008371 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 13916 15161 10008463+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 15162 16407 10008463+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 16408 28856 99996561 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 28857 41305 99996561 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 41306 53754 99996561 83 Linux
/dev/sda15 53755 60801 56604996 83 Linux
Code:
cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.13.1)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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sda1 Boot Primary NTFS [^C] 31453.48
sda2 Primary Linux swap 2056.32
sda3 Primary Linux ext3 [/spare1] 51210.60
sda5 Logical Linux ext3 [/] 1028.16
sda6 Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 10248.70
sda7 Logical Linux ext3 [/usr] 8200.61
sda8 Logical Linux ext3 [/var] 2056.32
sda9 Logical Linux ext3 [/tmp] 8200.61
sda10 Logical Linux ext3 10248.70
sda11 Logical Linux ext3 10248.70
sda12 Logical Linux ext3 102396.52
sda13 Logical Linux ext3 102396.52
Code:
:~# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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Originally Posted by johnslack
Next question, I have a pen drive with Grub booting Madriva. Can I modify the pendrive grub.config to boot my Slackware and Fedora. I don't want to mess with the boot sector on the hard drive. If this is possible how do I configure grub?
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Yes it's possible. Do a search here on LQ as this has been covered a lot.
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Originally Posted by johnslack
Finally can I download the DVD.iso, mount it on a large external iomega hard drive (from my pendrive Madriva) and then somehow install to my hard drive. Is this a stupid idea and I should just burn the DVD disk, boot it and install normally?
Thanks
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Yes. you can download the dvd iso for Slackware but be sure to check the md5sum for the download. Then use '
Slackware®12_Janux_NET_NoBurn_Install' as a guide.
These links and others can be found at '
Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!
