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["Dustin MacDonald" <dmacdonald95 AT hotmail.com>]

Meg eh? Welcome to circa-1984 Will! :-) Just kidding, I assume you mean Gig, sorry about bumping your post, just decided to make sure that was a type ^_^ a "couple" of partitions, I assume that means 2? Here's how I think you'd ought to set it up.

Partition A - 5GB {Linux OS}
Parition B - 4GB {2nd OS, or home/var/etc dir [your choice]}
Parition C - 1GB {Swap}

You might want to use Parition Magic, great piece of software, try it out ^_^ Sorry I can't be of more help |=)

>From: Will Hatch <fhkms AT adelphia.net>

>Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

>To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>

>Subject: Re: Re: [BL] newbie

>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:40:47 -0400

>

>My hard drive is blank. When I boot the pc it stops after the bios runs through.  I tried to install Tiny Linux and went through the process of installing, but didn't have all the disks.  Anywhoooo...  I have a couple partitions and a swap, but i'd like to start from scratch. I think I'm ready to partition and install.  The computer is a Dell optiplex Gn+. It has a 10 meg hard drive, pentium processor, and 32 meg ram.  -Will

> >

> > From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org

> > Date: 2004/06/19 Sat PM 05:33:46 EDT

> > To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

> > Subject: Re: [BL] newbie

> >

> > Will Hatch wrote:

> > >

> > > I have my Basic Linux floppy discs functioning, and am just

> > > beginning to explore.  I found the word processor, but can't

> > > seem to exit out of the program.

> >

> > CTRL-X

> >

> > > Alt-h shows me a help screen but the commands the list do not work.

> >

> > Are you pressing the CTRL key?  The ^ symbol stands for CTRL.

> >

> > > Also, I want to install this to the hard drive and have it boot

> > > from the hard drive.  Can anybody point me toward step by step

> > > instructions, including the partitioning of the disk?

> >

> > The specific commands for partitioning your HD, depend on what

> > else you have on the HD (and whether you want to preserve it).

> > If you give us the details of your HD, we can probably help.

> > In particular:  what OS is currently booting, what is on the

> > various partitions, is there currently an empty partition

> > available?

> >

> > Cheers,

> > Steven

> >

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