Re: Paritioning Issue

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:32:56PM -0800, Baz wrote:
> > 
> > Basically, I'd like to keep XP until I can learn more about Debian - and,
> > especially get WLAN up and running, then I won't have an issue installing
> > over the entire HD.  To answer your questions: I have about 40GB available
> > in two factory set partitions.
> 
> manual partitioning, resize existing partitions to your desire (maybe
> you should defragment first) and create at least a "/" and a "swap"
> partition. A separate "/home" partition is also nice (here is where all
> your data will go). For recomended sizes search the debian webpage.
> 
 

And read the installation manual which has that info and how the
partitioner works.

Doug.