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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am in the process of readying my home machine for
skipjack (latest redhat beta). It already has windows 98 loaded. The
drive currently looks like:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>primary partition (c:) 3gb</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unallocated space 25gb</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>extended partition (10gb)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>logical drive (d:) 10gb</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the currently unallocated space I expect to
place:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>swap (256mb) **I have 256mb ram, do I need
swap?**</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/boot (100mb)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/ (512mb)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will split the remainder between /usr and /home
or I could join /usr and slash if appropriate, does /var need to be in the first
4096mb/1024 cyls? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What pitfalls await? How and where do I put
lilo? How do I choose between windows and linux when booting? Do I
always boot to windows and then lilo to linux? Clarification would be
greatly appreciated! Oh yeah, and where in the initial config do
I change the settings to have it operate properly. I have partition
magic and so I can move the partitions if needed. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cecil Whitley</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>