You can get distributions that calculate all the partitions for you. Distributions like SuSE and Fedora both do that, as does Ubuntu/ Kubuntu... But the current layout seems good, but only for a fairly small distribution...because my main linux distro now has over 10gigs of things in the / partition....

On 22/03/07, Carl Struyk <carl@struyk.co.uk> wrote:

Hi guys - I have a 40GB HDD on my HP TC1100 slate PC and wanted to install Linux as as I'm sick of fiddling with Live CD's - I flit between 10 of them and never stick any of them out.
I need to leave 15GB for Windows and wanted to divvy up the remaining 25GB. I have 512MB RAM so the swap is going to be 1024MB

Would I be OK doing 15GB for the FAT32 shared partition, 1GB for swap, 4GB for /, 5GB for /home.

I intend to put Gentoo on there to use and understand the (in) famous package manager which I've heard is top class.

Carl

On 3/22/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin@gmail.com > wrote:
On 22/03/07, Alan Pope < alan@popey.com> wrote:

> You can joke... I had to for a kernel bug that wasn't logged anywhere.. and
> another issue with my dell laptop where the screen corrupted due to hardware
> failure..
>
> http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/kernelbug
> http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/DellInspironXPSGen2Problem

Been there got the tee shirt, my favorite though (Done it here loads
of times) is having to use Linux to fix/access a Windows box

Now that is funny

--
Dick Turpin
"At theses prices I'm mugging myself!"

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