INstallation Questions

[Bryce C]

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The general rule of thumb I remember is twice your ram.
Also, I don't remember if this applies to 2K but I've found that XP is a
real bitch about being on the first drive. It may have the second
partition but it must be hda/sda.  That shouldn't affect you though.

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:56, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a laptop with Win2K installed. I want to resize the primary=20
> partition to add Linux (Mandrake 8.2).
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> 1. How big should I make the swap space? I will have 2-3 users, and will=20
> use the machine as a Java development machine running tomcat and j2ee app=
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> 2. Any hidden gotchas I should know about before I partition the drive? I=
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> am using PartitionMagic to add a new logical partition for Linux to the=20
> single primary partition that has Win2k
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> Thanks!
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> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> 480 945-0798
> 480 945-9197 fax
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
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