oi.... got a question bout installing slack.
my current linux partitions are for a 40 gig drive... 100 boot, 1026 swap and the rest my root partition (Mb of course).
slack's instructions for repartitioning (from scratch) say to do this as if it is the only choice....
Quote:
....we'll enter a size. To do this, you need
to enter +sizeM -- in this case, +2300M. Here's what the screen looks
like as these figures are entered:
First cylinder (703-1024): 703
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (33-92): +2300M
You have now created your primary Linux partition with a size of 2300 MB.
Next, you'll want to make a Linux swap partition. You do this the same
way. First, enter another "n" to make a primary partition:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
Enter "p" to select a primary partition. Partition 1 is in use by DOS,
and you've already used partition 2 for Linux, so you'll want to enter "3"
for the new partition number:
Partition number (1-4): 3
Since this is the last partition we plan to make on this hard drive, we'll
specify the end cylinder manually this time. Here are the entries for
this:
First cylinder (999-1024): 999
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (999-1024): 1024
Now we need to set the type of partition to 82, used for Linux swap....
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my question is HOW SHOULD I SET UP MY PARTITIONS?
i'm using hdb, where i've always kept my linux while xp is on hda (for now) but i don't know if slack does it different from RH8, which i'm quite sick of....
