RE: [SLUG] Partition Help

[Robert Tillsley <RTillsley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't your swap space need to be twice your RAM?

Rob T

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Bryan [mailto:sbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:50 AM
> To: Slug
> Subject: [SLUG] Partition Help
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I am setting up a system for a person with a disability and have come
> unstuck right at the beginning.
> The system supplied is second hand and only had a 800MB HDD, 
> so I have added
> a second IDE of 1GB giving a total of about 1,8GB.
> Onto this I wanted to install either RH8 or RH7.2 with Open Office.
> 
> The install program consistently fails to partition the 
> drives automatically
> (even if I use fdisk and delete all partitions first) so I 
> have to do it
> manually, I chose
> 
> 800MB -> 100MB Swap + 700MB /usr
> 1GB -> 1GB / (forced to be a primary partition)
> 
> The system then won't install because I do not have enough 
> space in the /
> partition.
> 
> Q1: Is 1.8GB enough for what I want to do? (The 800MB had W95 
> and Office -
> not much space left but it worked)
> Q2: Is there a better arrangement for the partitions?
> 
> BTW the system is a PII with 64MB RAM
> 
> 
> _________________________________________
> Simon Bryan
> IT Manager
> OLMC Parramata
> ICQ#: 137562751
> _________________________________________
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