denis_o_leary Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I would like to install Mandrake 9.2 onto my system. I will dual-boot with XP. I have created a new partition for linux. I restart computer and load the disc. Then it comes to the mount point part which I do not understand. Please explain this, and explain what command i put in. Like, i click the Linux partition, click mount point, what do I type in there? coz then it asks me to put in a root partition. Do i need to install another partition? a swap file for Linux or something? Please explain in detail. Thanks a million, Denis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 19, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 19, 2004 There are tons of FAQs on this. And I am pretty sure that Mandrake has installation instructions, too... But, here is a summary: Leave a section of your hard drive UNpartitioned for Linux. The installer will take care of it. Let it partition automatically. Done. (Y) Now, if you insist on doing it all yourself, please read up on it. If you don't want to read up on it, but still want to set it up yourself, do the following: Create about 100-150MB partition as /boot for your kernel boot images. Use almost all the rest (except 200-500MB) as your "/" root partition where all your files will go. Use the last bit as your swap. Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 My usual procedure is 2xRAM for the swap partition, and the rest as / . I never have seen much point in making a partition just for /boot, or any other subdirectory, unless you have a second hard drive. Also, I always put my swap partition first on the hard drive, as it tends to speed up access a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioVendetta Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Like markjensen said, leave the space unpartitoned and the mandrake installer will partition it for you. It will also install the dual boot for ya, i love the mandrake installer its so easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 My usual procedure is 2xRAM for the swap partition, and the rest as / . I never have seen much point in making a partition just for /boot, or any other subdirectory, unless you have a second hard drive. Also, I always put my swap partition first on the hard drive, as it tends to speed up access a little bit. 2xRAM is way too much for some people - I for example have 1GB of RAM in this machine. I'm not using 2GB for swap - i don't think I'm ever going to have 3GB of things in memory at once, ever. I'd suggest a small amount more - 1/2 your RAM maybe. Especially since Linux is very good at memory management. The reason people patition /boot off is because if you run out of space on / (where everything is) it's quite likley you won't be able to boot up. Whereas if you partition /boot off seperatley you won't have that problem. This is how I partitioned up a 80GB hdd for Linux: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 1012M 143M 818M 15% / /dev/hda1 76M 9.3M 63M 13% /boot /dev/hda8 62G 467M 58G 1% /home none 500M 0 500M 0% /dev/shm (swap) /dev/hda5 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp /dev/hda2 5.0G 1.8G 3.0G 37% /usr /dev/hda3 4.0G 108M 3.7G 3% /var Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 20, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2004 My usual procedure is 2xRAM for the swap partition 2xRAM is way too much for some people (...)I'd suggest a small amount more - 1/2 your RAM maybe. First "Swap Partition" Rule of Thumb There is no rule of thumb :pinch: It used to be 2xRAM, then 1.5xRAM... Now, with so many systems using 512MB, 1GB or more, that 1/2xRAM seems about right... Because people install on old 64MB and newer 1GB (plus everything inbetween), I suggest using the actual swap size for recommendations. 200MB to 500MB should be fine. For most people... errr... for most appications... :whistle: (of course, there are exceptions) :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 depends. For laptops if you are planning to use the susped to disk you ought to have a swap that is 1 to 2 times larger than your ram. But IF you have 512 megs ram or over, you will almost never touch the swap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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