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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> >
> > Meg eh? Welcome to circa-1984 Will! 
> 
> Man, I would have loved to have a 10mb HD in 1984.  All I had
> was a 180kb floppy drive (which was a recent upgrade from the
> horrible tape drive I was using until then).
Was your 1984 computer acquired used?  In 1985 I got a new Zenith with TWO 
360K floppy drives and no expansion slots.  I had to pay $100 for an 
expansion slot into which to put the 10MB hard drive a friend gave me a 
few years later.  I partitioned it in two and had 5MB for backups, and 
never came close to filling it with my text files.  

I have partitioned my 2G drive to provide about 100MB for BL3 (which 
leaves space for the files needed to compile, since they are only about 
15MB instead of the 120MB needed for BL2), and 1G for BL2 and the rest for 
whatever I feel like playing with later.  I put DOS on a separate smaller 
drive.  I figure if I really need a swap file I can use the BL3 partition 
for that.  Someone on the list suggested using Partition Resizer, a free 
program to change partition sizes even with files on the partitions (which 
Partition Magic cannot do in Linux).  The last partition could also be 
used for files which are shared between different linuxes (images, 
documents, sound files).


 > > > Partition A - 5GB {Linux OS}
> > Parition B - 4GB {2nd OS, or home/var/etc dir [your choice]}
> > Parition C - 1GB {Swap}
> 
> Considering that BL3 is only 5mb in size, a 5gb partition is
> overkill.  Even 1gb is probably too much.  Ditto the swap.
> I believe Will has only 32mb RAM, so 64mb RAM for swap would 
> probably be more appropriate.  
> 
> Keep in mind that BL3 is designed for old PCs with much smaller
> HDs.  For example, on my 486 laptop with 120mb HD, the partitions
> look like this:
> -----------------------------
> /dev/hda1   20mb DOS
> /dev/hda2   24mb Linux swap    (RAM=12mb)
> /dev/hda3   76mb Linux native
> -----------------------------
> I can do just about anything I want on that 76mb filesystem
> (except compiling, which I do on a more powerful system).

> Steven