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If you have Partition Magic, use it to create the free space. I'm not too sure how the Linux partitioner (cfdisk) is on Windows partitions - esp. NTFS.
Just create freespace, use cfdisk to create /, /swap and poss. /home (but that's your choice) and in the install, you will be asked which is /swap and which is /
Primary, as I recall (if you already have Linux partitions on there - which you may have, don't I recall you trying Fedora? - just reuse them). You don't need to do any partitioning, simply allow Slack to format the partitions.
aah, go with primary, set up your partitions and then don't forget to use the "write to disk" option to 'fix' them in place. Then type setup and you're ready to roll.
The use of logical vs. primary is sort of dictated by how many paritions you want. If you are only putting 4 and not more, go all primary. IF more than that you have to make some of them logical.
Cool Squall - glad to hear you have finally successfully installed Linux.
Suggestion, for an easy life, do this:
as root, run updatedb
go to www.swaret.org and download swaret
cd to the directory you have stored it in
type in: installpkg swaret(hit tab to autocomplete)
when it has installed, still as root, copy swaret.conf.new to swaret.conf
edit swaret.conf to not exclude anything (add # where you see the word exclude)
save it and, still as root, run: swaret --update
then, when it's done that, run: swaret --upgrade -a (this will bring 9.1 up to date)
if you are feeling especially brave, re-edit swaret.conf to change your version number from 9.1 to current (overwrite the 9.1 near the top of the page with the word current)
do swaret --update, then swaret --upgrade -a
Note: the upgrade to current isn't entirely necessary, 9.1 has kde 3.2 and a host of other new files, incl. Gimp 2
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