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For a working Slackware system I would suggest at least 20GB as it is surprising how quickly you can use disk space. I would suggest that you create an extended partition for your Slackware install and swap space, otherwise your Win7 boot partition and Win7 C drive, then your Slackware install and swap partion would use all the available primary partitions. Quote:
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The domain name can be anything that you choose in this situation. I just use home.org.au Quote:
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If you do a full Slackware install you will also install the KOffice suite. Personally I do not use this, but you may find it useful. If you need full Microsoft Office compatibility, (e.g. VisualBasic support in Excel) then you will need to look at other solutions (e.g. virtual machine technology or perhaps Crossover Office that runs under WINE). I generally just find it easier to boot into Windows! PDF readers are well supported in Linux. With a full Slackware install you will get 'okular' which works well for me as well as the older but often useful 'xpdf'. There is also a native Linux Adobe Acrobat version. There are also other third party applications available, which I will leave to others to offer their opinion. |
Hey, thanks a lot for your detailed response.
I'm not too sure about what you mean by this: "I would suggest that you create an extended partition for your Slackware install and swap space, otherwise your Win7 boot partition and Win7 C drive, then your Slackware install and swap partion would use all the available primary partitions." I'm also not sure what "suspend to RAM" and "suspend to disk" means, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I think I'll follow your advice and do a full install. |
I think that a swap partition double your RAM size is way to large, I use single RAM size and have no problems with Suspend to Disk. Suspend to RAM shouldn't get any problems with any swap size. But there were already flamewars about this I think.
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1. Use the Windows Partition Manager (you can find that in Administration in your Control Panel) to reduce the size of your Windows partition. 2. Restart your system and boot into your favorite live system or the Slackware install CD. 3. Use the partitioner of your choice to set up an extended partition. Into this extended partition, create a logical partition for swap and a logical partition for the Slackware system. 4. Install and have fun. |
According to tronayne in here Win7 takes 3 primary partitions. So, trying to incorporate the advice above, is this how I should divvy up my partitions?
Primary partition 1: Win7 Primary partition 2: Win7 Primary partition 3: Win7 Extended partition: - Logical partition 1: Slackware root - Logical partition 2: Slackware swap Sorry, but I am a little confused. The Win7 partition utility actually only creates two partitions when I shrink the C drive. The book also recommends that I create separate partitions for a few directories like /home and/usr for security reasons. If anyone is dual-booting Windows and Slack, please tell me your partition system, and I'll just follow that until I get the hang of things. |
I always saw only 2 partitions created by Win 7, but maybe I am wrong here.
Your parition scheme looks good. Of course you can use separate partition for /home and other directories. I personally use a seperate /home-partition, so if I mess up my system my personal configuration files can be left in place (Of course they are also backed up.) May be you want a separate data-partition, formatted to NTFS, so you can share files with your Windows installation. So may be you want something like this:
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That looks good. Thanks, TobiSGD.
How large should the data partition for sharing be? And all these physical vs. logical partitions could be set up during the Slack installation, right? Because if not, then I'm missing something with the Win7 Data Management configuration. |
Only thing you have to do in Windows regarding the partitions is to shrink your Windows-partition. For the data-partition, i Would shrink Windows as much as you think it will be usable for you, so that you just give the rest of the disk as a storage place for your data to that data-partition.
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Okay, here's a bit of an embarrassing question: I installed Slackware, and, as far as I can tell, it went smoothly. (Getting on the Net is a whole other story.) I made sure that the /root partition was bootable (flag switched on). However, since I installed LILO in the root partition (did not make a boot disk), I'm not sure how to boot into Slack. My only options are still
Internal HDD CD/DVD Drive Onboard NIC How do I get into Slack? I think it's something I have to do in fdisk, but have no idea what. Here's something else that came up unexpected that was not in any installation screenshot I saw: After partitioning my drives, the following message came up on screen: FAT or NTFS Detected Partitions of type FAT or NTFS (commonly used by DOS and Windows) have been found on your system. Would you like to add these partitions to your /etc/fstab so that these partitions are visible from Linux? I think this is the data partition TobiSGD above was talking about. For security reasons, I chose no. If I chose yes, then that would enable me to access all my Windows files from Slack, right? Also, I created four partitions for Slack: /sda5 - /root partition - 20 GB /sda6 - Linux swap - 4 GB /sda7 - /home - 8 GB /sda8 - /usr/local - 20 GB All are logical, but the Windows 7 Disk Management shows them as primary. Any idea why? |
You are wanting a multiboot setup, but by installing LILO to the Slackware root partition on /sda5 you are still using the Windows boot loader. What you need to do is to install LILO to the MBR (master boot record) so that the Windows boot loader is replaced by the LILO boot loader. (Yes, there is a scary message about the danger of doing this, but do it anyway!) Then when you boot, you should get a menu from which can select to boot Win7 or Slackware.
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As you are installing for the first time, I suggest you start again doing a full install to /sda5 and with the swap on /sda6. Keep /sda7 and /sda8 unused. Then when you have more experience, you can use this disk space to suit your purposes e.g. using a separate partition for your /home directory. |
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To get to your Slackware install, you can use the Install cd, notice the suggested prompts to aid in booting the Gnu/linux. The easiest way for corrections would be to use the install cd1 to boot the system as if you were going to install. After you get to the login then from the cli (command line); Code:
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Okay, I'm just going to chalk attempt 1 as failed and try to re-install.
To double check: 1. The root partition SHOULD NOT be set as bootable. 2. LILO SHOULD be placed into the MBR. |
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onebuck has also supplied the method you can use to fix your existing install. It is what an experienced Slacker would do. I considered this approach for you, but if you are not comfortable with Slackware then a reinstall allowing the setup scripts to do their thing is probably easier. |
Yes, my thanks to onebuck, but I am not über familiar with the Linux commands yet. I'll keep his input in mind once I gain more experience.
----- Well, I successfully installed Slack (and this time I can actually boot to it and log in). As I logged in as root, I got a pretty long message from Volkerding on how to use Slack. I'll need to go over that in detail. Now, I need to go over the Slackbook bit by bit so I actually know how to use this thing. As for loaders, I think I'll stick with LILO for now and learn the basics before I dare to get fancy with switching to GRUB. Thanks for all your help, everybody. This has been quite the learning experience. P.S.: All seven of my partitions are still listed as Primary in the Windows Disk Management tool. And the Recovery partition is listed as Active. Isn't the C:\ volume the one that's supposed to be Active? I really hope this doesn't screw things up later. |
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W7 does this. The OS is hooked to that partition to allow the boot(IPL) to launch the SPL(secondary program loader) which loads their kernel. Just M$ means of protecting the install. Poor if you ask me but Gates is the billionaire. Glad to hear you have a system up an running. :hattip: |
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