On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 21:35, David Jardine wrote: > 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)? MS-DOS and the Win95/98/ME systems need to be on what they think is C:, which would mean the first drive that has a filesystem they can read (FAT, VFAT, FAT32,) and preferably the first primary partition of the first physical drive. NT/2K/XP can be anywhere, so long as the boot loader can throw to them. When I ran OS/2 on my old (old, old) 486, the first primary partition was the OS/2 Boot Manager, with MS-DOS 6.22 on the second primary partition. A data partition and OS/2 lived on the second drive. The main consideration with the non-NT stream of DOS/Windows is that it doesn't handle being confused about where it is among the partitions with filesystems it understands. > > > 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. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > -- > David Jardine > "Running Debian/GNU Linux and > loving every minute of it." -Sacher M. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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