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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:


> How have other basiclinux users ended up partitioning their drives and
> what sorts of operating systems do they have on them?  Would it be better
> to start off with 2 or more partitions and split linux up among them
> (mount them all and if I decide I want to use more than one operating
> system, move all the BL2 files to one partition and unmount the others?).

On my current BL system I have hda1 as a non-gui win98 partition (and
linux boot partition with BL booting automatically from autoexec).  Then
hdb1 is my BL drive. Once I have everything setup exactly how I want it
(no more tweaking, like that'll happen), I'm going to wipe win98 and
install dos6.22 on a minimal portion of hda1 (say like 20MB, leaving room
in case I want to play some old DOS games). The rest of hda (hda2) will
become my primary BL boot drive, and hdb will be partitioned up for swap
partition (possibly 64-128MB) and /home directories.

For the resizing of partitions, I'd recommend partition manager. It's a
free partition resizing tool. With it you can control whereat upon the
physical disk data is currently being stored, and even shrink/grow
partition sizes without destroying your data (but still backup just in
case). I've used it in the past and reccomend it. It  an be obtained at
http://www.ranish.com (along with a few other pieces of software, but
haven't checked anything else out).

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