I put Mandrake 10.0 on my home PC and had a HELL of a time ... mostly due to inexperience with Linux.
I am putting Mandrake on another PC and want to avoid the problems I had installing it. It will be Win XP on one drive and Mandrake on another drive along with a FAT32 share partition.
I am giving about 30 gigs in a partition for Mandrake on this drive. I already set the Fat32 for 70 gigs. Any suggestions of how I should divide this space during the install when it asks how I want to allocate it?
What I mean is how much for boot/swap/usr (or whatever is recommended) and in what order would be best?
I put Mandrake 10.0 on my home PC and had a HELL of a time ... mostly due to inexperience with Linux.
I am putting Mandrake on another PC and want to avoid the problems I had installing it. It will be Win XP on one drive and Mandrake on another drive along with a FAT32 share partition.
I am giving about 30 gigs in a partition for Mandrake on this drive. I already set the Fat32 for 70 gigs. Any suggestions of how I should divide this space during the install when it asks how I want to allocate it?
What I mean is how much for boot/swap/usr (or whatever is recommended) and in what order would be best?
Much depends on what youre going to use it for:
Swap: 512M, at most... if the box has a good amount of memory you can scale that back to 256M
Boot: 125M, you can go lower but when you update a Linux kernel many distros leave the old one there as a fall back if the update breaks something.
Usr: if this box is just for home use I would not bother with a usr partition, just put the rest in '/'..