Installing Slackware 10.1 on a new Compaq Presario M2010

From: Nicole (nicolina888_at_yahoo.it)
Date: 05/03/05 

Date: 2 May 2005 15:27:39 -0700

Hello everyone,

it's been a while since I last installed Slackware 3.6
along with other OS's on my old Extensa 390 (now defunct).
I just got me a brand new Compaq Presario M2010 (no floppy
drive) and I wonder what's the best way to go about
partitioning the HD and installing the various OS's
without a bootable floppy drive (I'm used to do it with
a bootable floppy with DOS as OS, dos efdisk for getting
three primary partitions, MS-DOS fdisk for getting
extended partition and logical drives, then lastly using
fdisk from the Linux CD for the Linux partitions).
I was thinking of burning a bootable CD-ROM with the DOS
stuff on it, but I'd like to hear from you if there are
better choices available.

Anyway, on a 40GB HD, I plan to have the following:

P1: 100MB with DR-DOS and Win3.11
P2: 6GB WinXP
P3: 6GB FAT16 for data (readable/writable by all systems in the laptop)
P4: 4GB Linux system 1 (Slackware 10.1)
P5: 4GB Linux system 2 (for experimenting with various distributions)
p6: 20GB ext2 (/HOME to the two Linux systems for data)

I don't think I'll need a swap partition, given that as soon as I get
the 512MB sodimm I ordered I'll have 768MB of RAM in the laptop.

I would appreciate your tips for partitioning and installing without
a floppy drive, and also some additional advice from those who have
installed Slack 10.1 on the Presario M2010 (or please point me to the
available sources of information).

By the way, the manual for the M2010 cryptically states that in order
to put in more than 512MB of RAM in the PC and still have a functional
hybernation/power management mode it is necessary to increase the
small partition dedicated to the Compaq files... That's all it says,
no specific instructions anywhere else, not even on their website...
Any comments from Compaq laptop users?

Thank you all, very much.
N.

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