Re: dual booting
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:21:03PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, james leclair wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello. Starting to get comfortable with Debian and am now looking to setup
> > a dual boot with W2K. I will be starting fresh with a 20GB HD. So, I assume
> > I would install windows first. Is this correct? Also, what reccomendations
> > could anyone make regarding my linux partitions? 10 GB of this drive will
> > be committed to windows, so, of the remaining 10 GB what should my deb
> > partitions look like? Thanks all!
> >
>
> Yes, Windows thinks its the only thing in the world and must be installed
> first. So you must create a partition for it first.
Is this really true or just a self-perpetuating myth?
I'm not much good at getting anything to work at all on
my Debian/Windows machine, but - at least with slink and
potato - I had no trouble booting with hda1=swap, hda2=
Debian and hda3=Windows. Perhaps because it's a small
hard disk (1,2 GByte)?
> You can leave
> partitioning the rest of the drive for the Debian install if you like, or
> do it at the same time as the Windows partition.
>
> As far as how to partition for Linux, there are many different ways to do
> it. Some of the most long-lived threads on this list have been debates as
> to the "right" way to partition a Debian system. So, my recommendation for
> a partition table for your drive would be:
>
> Name Filesystem size(GB) Mount Point
>
> hda1 Win2K 10 (Windows partition)
>
> hda2 ext2 2 /
> hda3 Linux swap 1 (swap)
> hda5 ext2 1 /var
> hda6 ext2 6 /usr
>
> In reality the appropriate partitioning scheme has a lot to do with the
> use of the machine. I split out a separate /var partition for storage of
> email but this depends upon the email load the machine sees. An
> alternative would be to eliminate the /var partition and add its disk
> space to the /usr partition. If the drive were bigger I would have a
> separate /home partition for user accounts.
>
> IMHO the partitioning scheme for a Unix system is very subjective so I
> wouldn't worry about it too much. You could have just 2 Linux partitions,
> hda2 for the entire system and a swap partition.
>
>
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