Re: Partitioning

From: Anthony W. Youngman (thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:50:56 +0000

In article <m2d6aktons.fsf@linux.local>, Janus Sandsgaard
<spam@janus.dk> writes
>kpqcj@xgtzbx.com writes:
>
>> Windows may want to be the first one. Linux doesn't care, as long as
>> the boot loader is happy with the location of the boot files. So I'd
>> propose this as the simplest setup:
>
>The SuSE "User Guide" say I need to put the boot partition within the
>first cylinders of the hardi disk. What to believe?
>
The SuSE user guide is, sadly, a bit out of date :-(

That restriction *may* be true, but it varies depending on your
hardware. It's not true for any reasonably modern system.

I've got SuSE 8.2 and the manual says "for modern machines, swap equal
to ram is fine". Nope! not according to Linus, RvR or AA! What's the
*maximum* ram your mobo will take? Double that and that's your swap
partition.

Cheers,
Wol 

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