[olug] Hard drive prep.

[Noel Leistad]

No, /s installs M$ boot files that you won't be needing AND would get 
wiped out by installer anyway.

I'd probably delay and let the installer do the partitioning.

Generally when I setup a drive, and this has changed over time, I've now 
moved to something like the following:

100M part for /boot
2x(RAM Memory) for swap
5-40G for / (size depends on size of drive)
and most recently (cuz I'm tired of losing personal data that Linux is 
good about storing in your $HOME directory,
the balance at /home

Possibly, the 2xRAM for swap is wrong or unusable, but I'd rather be 
safe than sorry, and now that I've "come out" hopefully somebody can set 
me straight on the true details.

Fedora installer will auto-part the drive and set it all up if you let 
it, as will SuSE, and Kubuntu which I installed the other day, didn't 
even review when done.

After all the rambling, kudos to you for the proactive approach, but I'd 
let the installer have it's way with the disk on a new install, unless 
you've got compelling reasons or applications for a particular disk 
scheme and special file system types.


Noel

Jim Washburn wrote:

> I want to get my 120gb hard drive ready for the install vest. in 
> January with Fedora. I have W2K on it now that I have 
> fdisked/formatted a few times for experience. After fdisk'ing, do I 
> "format C:/s" command to prep the hard drive for installing fedora?
>
> First time Linux beginner,
> Jim
>
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Noel Leistad