OpenEuphoria

Re: Offtopic Linux stuff

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Apr 02, 1999
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> I'm [very] tempted to get some Linux. And since EUPHORIA will soon have a
> Linux flavor, it's probably on-topic, eh? 
>
> If I've got a 13GB  HD right now, and portions of it being used by
> Winblows98, I assume there's some way to go about getting a bootable Linux
> box on a portion/partition, no? Anybody with a good link or step-by-step
> proven, bugless and hassle-free method of achieving this?

Try the hassle-non-free method, you don't want to mess-up your HD. No really, it
depends on your current situation..
Say, you have unused partitions, On which you want to install Linux. During the
setup of Ret Hat Linux (5.2) you get to use
'Disk Druid' ... what you want to do, is remove those un-used partitions (if
something is on them, it will be removed.. no
recycle bin or undelete!) and make new linux partitions.. many actually. Make a
partition with disk druid of about 100 Mb,
format it as 'Linux-native' and mount it '\', make one of about 150 and format
it as 'Linux-swap', make one of at least 500
(according to the manual) Mb and mount it to '/usr' (mounting seems to be
assigning directories to devices), and you may want to
make another one and mount it to 'home'.

In other words, to my surprise, Linux uses a different partition for many
things, to speed stuff up.

Ralf