best way to partition a (brand new) drive?
Posted: Sat 18 Mar 2006, 07:45
This isn't strictly speaking a "puppy linux specific" question, but since I figure you all must have multi boot systems -- I might as well ask...
I broke down and bought a 40G hd for the thinkpad. The husband wants me to put win98 on one partition, but I don't really want to waste a lot of space or time on it ,and I certainly don't want to have to fight it for control of the boot sector...
Eventually I will probably want to install another version of linux, probably debian or something like that. I am sure it will want it's own partition.
Could you suggest a good partition strategy for this situation? And how would you go about installing things? Some people say "load win98 first, load it in the primary partition" and then other people say "no -- that's the absolute worst thing you could possibly do!" So I'm confused again.
For everything I have read so far, I probably want to use grub over lilo. But i haven't even made a decision about that.
I really need to get on with at least making the partitions and formatting at least one, so I can keep pup001 someplace.
I broke down and bought a 40G hd for the thinkpad. The husband wants me to put win98 on one partition, but I don't really want to waste a lot of space or time on it ,and I certainly don't want to have to fight it for control of the boot sector...
Eventually I will probably want to install another version of linux, probably debian or something like that. I am sure it will want it's own partition.
Could you suggest a good partition strategy for this situation? And how would you go about installing things? Some people say "load win98 first, load it in the primary partition" and then other people say "no -- that's the absolute worst thing you could possibly do!" So I'm confused again.
For everything I have read so far, I probably want to use grub over lilo. But i haven't even made a decision about that.
I really need to get on with at least making the partitions and formatting at least one, so I can keep pup001 someplace.