how to install SLAX on a completely reformated hard disk?
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how to install SLAX on a completely reformated hard disk?
Please could somebody help me with my slax installation.
I'm using a HP Compaq nc 6000 with a completely erased (reformatted) hard disk. I want to install slax on the hard drive. That's very well documented, but there is no place to copy /slax to. So I think I would have to partition my hard disk and then to format the partitions. I've absolutely no experience as admin.
So how many partitions of what size should I choose?
What filesystem would be better FAT32 or ext4?
And what are the right commands for that purpose?
Keep it simple and just create one partition for the OS and a swap of 2-4GB, depends upon RAM that you have.
If you are going to install a Linux system, you should use a Linux filesystem and not a windows filesystem such as FAT32.
What operating system do you have to work with? Any Linux OS on the drive or on a Live CD/usb should have the software needed. You can download and burn a copy of GParted to a CD to use. It is a graphical and well documented partition manager.
Being not experienced, I'd still suggest you partition it with a split root and home that way your home data is safer than it would be if put all onto root / partition. As far as swap goes, I'd put it at the end.
root /
/home
/swap
Because you might find you do not need a swap then it can be easily regained and merged into the home partition.
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