Re: installing linux on a brand new hard drive
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:30:43 -0500
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:49:26 -0800, hardsteppa wrote:
> I'm building my own pc and want to run linux on it rather than windows.
> This is going to have a brand new hard drive in it that has never had
> any sort of os on it before. I was wondering how i would install linux
> (and which version would be the best for this) directly onto the hdd.
> All the installation guides i've looked at have talked about
> partitioning from windows, but as i'm not gonna have windows on it i
> wondered how to do it.
>
>
> The pc will be in an asus pundit-r case, with a celeron d 2.4ghz
> processor, a 120gb maxtor hard drive and 512 mb of crucial pc3200 RAM.
> There is an asus optical drive included too but no floppy.
> any help would be appreciated
>
>
> cheers
Both Mandrake 10.1 and Fedora Core 3 have excellent partitioning tools in
their installers, I'd give the edge to Mandrake but either is fine. When
you do the install you are given the choice of either letting the
installer do the partitioning or doing it yourself, choose doing it
yourself. Partition as follows,
/ 8G, this is for the OS and all of it's applications
/os 8G, this is for a future OS. You should always have at least
2 OS partitions so that you can do a future upgrade without
blowing away your old OS. There are two reasons for this,
1) Clean installs have fewer problems than Upgrade installs
2) If there is a problem with the new OS, or if you just don't
like it, you can switch back to your old setup.
swap 2G, The recommended amount of swap space is 2X the amount of RAM. You
only have 512M but chances are you will want to upgrade it in the
future so give yourself 2G of SWAP space so that you can go to
1G of RAM without having to repartition. Disk space is cheap,
don't worry about wasting it.
/home Remaining space. Your home directory will be here. Also if you are
going to install any software from source or from a tar file then create
a /home/tools directory and put it there. When you do a future upgrade
/home will not be touched so it's the place to put everything that you
own (as opposed to the distribution). Do not put anything on the /
partition that you would mind losing.
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On another note. Don't use Maxtor drives, they are very unreliable. Use
Seagate. I just bought a 200G Seagate at CompUSA for $79 after rebate so
you don't have to settle for a crappy Maxtor.
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