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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] need mke2fs help
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:29:19 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Kunle 'bona wrote:

i don't know if this message is coming too late, after
all you might already have installed bl3 but i was
thinking it might be a "waste" of space to install bl3
on the whole partition unless you plan to upgrade
(install slackware packages) i don't think you need
more than 100mb under normal circumstances (and that's
stretching it). there are some disk partitioning tools
Yes, I got quite a lot into less than 40MB including Opera, links2 and lynx. But if you want to also compile, at least 200MB.

you can get; i hear (knoppix has something like
that)which would allow you to resize your main
partition without you losing data (as always you are
advised to back up your data) AND create an ext2
partition with the space you free

DOS partition magic works well. Partition resizer was suggested.
Try Ultimate Boot CD tools.


--- Ben Sanders <BSand003 AT ucr.edu> wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to install 'basic linux 3' and I have
I have a laptop with windows 98 on one big
partition, and I
think there are some other smaller partitions which
take care
of some of the laptop-specific things. I would like
to wipe
windows 98 so that I can just put 'basic linux' on

Note that in this case he wants to get rid of Win98, which makes it simpler. Is there any reason to retain the smaller partitions?

Sindi




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