On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:15:56AM -0600, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote: > I'm going to do a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 on a dual boot system with > WinXP. I've read that making a 7mg /boot partition makes it easy to use > the Windows boot.ini file to choose operating systems. Ask your money back :) /boot partition has nothing to do with windows at all... It was employed back when lilo had problems booting kernels that were located beyond cylinder 1024. Now, having a /boot partition is only for "purists" like me that have / /usr /var /var/cache /var/mail /usr /usr/local /home ... and the reason is that you can mount /boot read-only and if something messes up you system, you can still boot and try to recover. > I also now have > 512mg of ram. Does the 2x rule still apply for the swap partition? Not since 2.4.10. > This > seams like overkill (and a waste of drive space). In the past I've been > using a 4.5gb / & a 3.0gb /home. How does this sound? This is just a > home machine with no server duties. Thanks Should be ok. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020302/09d355d8/attachment.pgp