Please, do bear with me for a moment and help me go through it, thanks: ok, so making images of Slack's boot (bareapm.i), root (color.gz), and rescue (rescue.gz) disks seems to have worked (documentation says to make images of all three files).
Now, in principle my initial idea was to strip windows from as much space as possible (even getting rid of it for good) so that I could make space for Slackware (that was with an IDE HDD of ~1.2GB, from which ~600MB belong to Debian. But this picture has change to better, I've just purchased a ~4.3GB UMDA HDD (though the BIOS just recognizes ~4.1GB). According to the Hard-Disk-Upgrade-mini-HOWTO, I can copy the entire Debian system to the new disk (and the steps to go through seem to be quite straight forward), allowing me that process to add more space to Debian in the new partition. Furthermore, I could spread the filesystem through several different partitions (with the obvious purpose of being able to share those possible between Debian2.0 and Slackware3.5, eg. /home, /usr?, anyone else? Then, of course, since Linux only allows 4 native partitions to be created (1 of them will be a 128MB swap - I have now 48MB RAM), and I plan to make several partitions for Debian (/, /home, /usr... ie. the ones I've heard they can be shared), plus the partition for Slackware (and I'm guessing I have to somehow "jump" creating /home and /usr during the installation process), some logical and extended partitions will have to be created (but just how many? Say 2 native for both Debian and Slackware's /'s; and 2 logical extended for /home and /usr (which will leave me with no chance to create one spare empty partition, unless it's just right to make 2 extended for both Deb and Slack). Please, could someone comment and give me advice on all the process thus far? Also, how big every partition should be. The Large-Disk-mini-HOWTO might be taken into account, although probably not since partitioning the disk might solve that, am I right? And finally (back to basics), to format and partition the new HDD (instead of the DOS FORMAT and fdisk tools), I should just use the fdisk (or cfdisk, which one?) and mke2fs tools (sorry, just thinking there's something missing). It would be great if I could get through and over with the whole thing during this weekend, so I'll be most grateful for any advice, correction, etc. -- Un saludo, Horacio ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------
