Great - thanks! Now for the age old question....how mcuh swap? I have 512 MB or RAM. Is 512 MB sufficient or too much? What is the magic number? Thanks again! Mark On Tuesday 19 September 2006 01:22 pm, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > 1) Make the second partition primary, extended partitions are only needed if you have more than 4 on the disk > 2) Add a third partition, around 2X your RAM, for swap space (and format it swap) > 3) Don't worry so much about cylinder boundaries, the heads/cylinders/tracks are all fake anyway (they're there for compatibility with old software). > > Mark Phillips wrote: > > Alan, > > > > Thanks - that is just what I need! > > > > Now, one more question - am I doing this correctly? > > > > 1. Resized my first partition to split the drive > > 2. Created an Extended Partition to include all the newly freed up space > > 3. Created a Logical partition in the new Extended Partition that includes all > > the space of the Extended Partition. Formatted this Logical Partition as > > ext3. I can create the swap space within the Debian setup program. > > > > Or, do I make the second partition a Primary Partition and format it as ext3? > > > > The Windows XP stuff (fat32) is at the front of the drive and is still labeled > > as boot. > > > > Before I hit "apply", I wanted to get some feedback before I hose everything! > > > > Also, Partition Magic always changed partition sizes to remain on cylinder > > boundaries. It is not apparent if GParted is doing that. Isn't that > > important? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark > > > > P.S. I never would have made it through offset=nnn! > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 10:45 am, Alan Pratt wrote: > >> Before you go that direction (which is a problem waiting to happen), > >> try a free program called 'GParted' - you can find it with a quick > >> google search. > >> > >> - alan > >> > >> On 9/19/06, Mark Phillips wrote: > >>> I have a new laptop that currently has Windows XP SP2. I want to create a > > new > >>> partition on the drive for Debian. > >>> > >>> My system: 30GB hard drive. Primary partition is c: with Windows XP, about > > 28 > >>> GB in size (the whole drive). I want to create a 15GB partition for > > Debian. > >>> I have used Partition Magic 7.1 in the past to do this, but it seems that > > XP > >>> won't let it re-partition the disk. I keep getting an error 27 - can't > > lock > >>> drive at the first step. I googled around for a work around and did not > > find > >>> a good solution. > >>> > >>> Symantek now owns PartitionMagic, has a new version, and doesn't support > > the > >>> older version. After 30 minutes on the phone and referrals to 4 phone > >>> numbers, I finally ended up at a number that wanted to charge my credit > > card > >>> $10 in order to connect me to someone to ask them "What is the price of > > the > >>> upgrade from Partition Magic 7.1 to 8.0?"! > >>> > >>> So, it seems that XP comes with DiskPart, a command line utility to > > partition > >>> disks. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with it and could > > provide > >>> some guidance on how to use it. I start to get worried when it asks for > >>> offset values. > >>> > >>> Alternatively, what other options do you suggest for partitioning my > > drive? > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Mark Phillips > >>> Phillips Marketing, Inc > >>> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > >>> 602 524-0376 > >>> 480 945-9197 fax > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc mark@phillipsmarketing.biz 602 524-0376 480 945-9197 fax --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss