help partitioning

[valeed]

hi , I have a 40gb hdd , 128mb ram , pentium 4 1000mhz hp pc of the 40gb i have made two logical partitions , of 22 gb & 18gb 22gb is reserved for windows xp , & on 18gb I wish to install Linux 8.0 ,  i want to have a dual boot & keep the windows xp as it is till I learn more & feel comfortable with Linux as I am new to this. please if someone can guide me to partition the 18gb for installing Linux   I have downloaded the psyche-i386-iso images & created 3 cds reqd for installation , please reply me with the calculation as to how  much is reqd for diff partitions in linux   what are the partitions i should create , & how much each partition should be allocated is there any calculation by which it becomes easy to allocate the reqrd space for the said partitions should i create all the partitions as mentioned below or is there anything else i should know please guide me   / /boot /home /swap /usr /usr/local /tmp /var     Have a nice day     regards     Valeed   [EMAIL PROTECTED]