On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > My idea was to partition as follows: > > #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb
I'd recommend putting all of / except for /usr, /var, and /home (and any other nonstandard /dir) here. 100M should be fine for that; my system has that setup (with /tmp symlinked /var/tmp) and is only using ~18M on /. > #2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows > #3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size > 128mb now? If you have a new version of mkswap and a 2.2 kernel, the limit seems to be 2G... Read the kernel docs and the mkswap manpage for more info. > #4 ext2 / rest of the disk (mount entire system here after image loads, > then mount /boot) Make partitions for /usr, /home, and /var as i mentioned above. You could also make /usr/local a separate partition. You could also create extra partitions or leave space unpartitioned for future use. > Will this work? (I don't know if NT needs that the system partition be > the FIRST partition) Don't know about NT either... > This is necessary to get the boot partition completly under 1024 > cylinder limit. As has been mentioned, that limit _may_ not apply. See those messages for more info, since i don't know much about that ;)
