Hey guys, well I have just finished downloading slack 10 and I want to boot only slack from a spare 60Gb drive I have made available with 2 extra fat32 drives for data storage, I have always used grub when dual booting with windows using a 200Mb /boot partition after the windows drive a / partition and a swap at the rear of the drive, this may silly but if slack is the only OS I'm going to boot do I need lilo and can I install everything in the / sector incliding /boot or should I perhaps partition a seperate /home directory just for safety sake.On other thing, I have a partly downloaded dvd.iso image I'm trying to copy from an ext3 partition to a fat32 partition and when it gets to 2Gb the window manager closes, is this something that can be fixed or because of the vfat 2Gb maximum size thing?

KInd regards

MunCH

Don't know about the 2GB file problem. I've never tried to copy something that big.

Not sure what you are asking about with the other issue. I'm guessing you aren't going to have Windows at all anymore and are just installing linux?

If that's the case you still need a bootloader (lilo or grub, for example). If Slack is the only OS the you can just install lilo to the MBR. Even if you could somehow get rid of lilo I certainly wouldn't ever do that.

I constantly have multiple kernels to boot into. Especially useful when you've just compiled a kernel. No matter how good you are you will inevitably neglect to choose some critical option in kernel config at some point. Having multiple kernel boot options is always nice as a safety backup.

The partitioning of the other data (like / and /home) is just preference. Some people like having /home and / and even /boot on different partitions to make reinstalling a little less stressful.

Personally, I just install a swap partition and then use the rest of the drive for everything else on one giant partition.

Thanks a lot for the reply 187807, thats cleared a few things up for me, any yes I definately expect to have some problems, the only way to learn really.

Regards

MunCH

FAT32 file system has a 2GB filesize limit.