Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote one of the nicest email's i've ever gotten:
> Great idea!
> If you own Partition Magic this re-sizing can be done easily
I do have PM.
But I will read all the fips anyway.
> Of course the files readme.1st, fips.faq, fips.doc
> in directory /dostools/fips/fips15 (or /dostools/fips/fips20, resp.)
> are also very worth reading...
The download only finished a while ago, and I haven't looked at the
files yet. Thank you for pointing them out. I may have missed them.
> Step #1 is running a defrag program on your windows partition.
That one wouldn't have caught me either. Sometimes I can be amazingly
dim.
> Creation of the Linux partition normally is done while installing Linux:
> there is a point in the SuSE setup procedure where you may partition
> your disk.
Then i'll let the installer do it. Good.
> In this case just make sure you actually read the comments and questions
> written on the setup screens before proceeding with [Enter].
You can count on that. I'll probably be spending several hours reading
and rereading everything prompted ;)
> Note: When creating the Linux partition make sure you do *not* use all
> the space that got free when shrinking the Windows partition!
>
> Reason: In addition to creating a Linux partiton you also have to create
> a 2nd partition, type Linux Swap!
Gotcha. I had read about the swap partition, but wasn't sure how to go
about making them. I'm glad the installer will do it :)
>
> IMHO you should reserve about 300MB for this (anybody please correct me
> if I am wrong:) because using less than 191MB will be useless when using
> a 2.4 kernel since these modern kernels will ignore the Swap space totally
> if it has smaller size than your RAM.
I had read that you should make it 1.5 times the size of your ram, but
there was some discussion as to whether that was accurate. I'll do
300mb anyway.
> subscribe it here: http://www.suse.com/us/support/mailinglists/index.html
> read the archive: http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/
>
> comp.os.linux.*
I'm subbing to the lists :) Thank you :) I've been reading the
newsgroup for a short time, and i'm becoming familiar with some of the
things they're discussing. Slowly.
Thank you again for the info :) We actually have bits and pieces for a
linux box, but I think i'd rather run it from this machine. It saves
desk space. :) I did find a handy page:
http://enterprise.powerup.com.au/~squadron/
The one page linux manual :) It has some good little reference notes.
And through that i'm figuring out what the different abbreviations
are. If I can figure out all those, i'll be in good shape :)
--
Ruhiel
http://ruhiel.noom.com
"bash awk grep perl sed df du, du-du du-du,
vi troff su fsck rm * halt LART LART LART!"- the Swedish BOFH
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