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what partitions exactly for installation
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Puffin
Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 2 |
Hello there I'm planning to install Puppy 431 on my old computer / harddisk, which I've completely emptied for this purpose. So now there's not a single partition on it. What partitions would you recommend to create before the installation, with what file systems, and what sizes? (RAM is 512) Thank you very much! Puffin |
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Jim1911
Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA |
Welcome to puppy. See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 for Catdude's excellent tutorial on how to set up your partitions and do the installation. Since it is an older computer, you may need to use a version with an earlier kernel, see http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/special-puppies/ if you need one. |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6179 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
Maybe, but I don't think that is too likely... with 512MB ram it isn't exactly ancient. Catdude's tutorial is for a full install, but you may want to do a "frugal" install, which is kind of like running from CD - the files on the CD are copied to the hard drive, and all your settings and installed programs are kept in another file. A frugal install makes it very easy to back up your stuff (you just copy one file) and to upgrade to a newer version of puppy. It depends what extra programs you will install and run, but I'd probably only recommend a swap partition twice the size of your ram if you have 256MB ram or less - I think most people are very unlikely to ever need more than 512MB swap. Personally if I was going to install Puppy on a computer as the only operating system I would make a 512MB swap partition (unless I had a special reason for a bigger one), and fill the rest of the hard drive with an ext3 partition (or possible something else, but not vfat, ntfs or ext2), and I would do a frugal install. _________________ DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS - - - Classic Puppy quotes - - - Beware the demented serfers! |
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