It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the lowest sector numbers. Do I understand this right?
I am about to reformat a 20-gig hard disk on a 5-year-old Dell laptop that used to run Windows XP. You might say, I am giving it a whole new outlook. The present fdisk report for /dev/hda shows a 32-MB partition 1 and a 19-gig partition 2. I think I will probably make it 19-gigs for partition 1 and 512 MB for partition2 since the system has 256 K of RAM. Partition 1 will be Linux and partition2 will be swap. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]