Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

From: Hershel Robinson (hershelr_at_netvision.net.il)
Date: 08/31/03

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    I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are:

    Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400
    AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz
    ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head
    UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM

    My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces?

    My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with Windows 2000.
    I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work purposes. I also may
    want to store images in a shareable location and I presently have 5Gigs of
    digital pictures on this Win 2K machine.

    My thoughts are to set up:

    10G Windows 2K system and software
    10G Shareable data (FAT?)

    For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and I have
    512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition. Beyond that, the
    web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for / /usr /tmp and /home. I
    also read that more than 6Gig can create problems for ext2 partitions. So at
    this point, I'm between those minimums and 6Gig. :)

    This machine is a desktop for home/professional use (I am a web developer).
    Any advice is appreciated. I am a newbie, so feel free to explain to me
    things that may be patently obvious to everyone else and feel free to write
    me offline in the event that the subject matter may not be of interest to
    the list.

    Thank you,
    Hershel Robinson

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