[PLUG] Dual Boot Partitioning Suggestions Please

Dhruva B. Reddy bdhruva at gmx.net
Fri Jun 7 13:07:03 UTC 2002


Comments inline...

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:58:58PM -0700, quoth Andrew Puch:
> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 10:22, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:22:18AM -0700, quoth Richard Steffens:
> > > I'm getting ready to take the Debian plunge. I have a 10GB drive for my
> > > Thinkpad 390x (450 Mhz Celeron w/ 96MB RAM) on which I currently have
> > > Red Hat 7.1 as installed from a set of K12LTSP CDs. I want to set up the
> > > drive to dual boot Linux and Win98. My intention is to use this as a
> > > learning experience. I've followed the discussions about RH vs Debian vs
> > > Mandrake vs etc., and since I have successfully installed RH on 2
> > > machines, I'd like to give Debian a try so I can determine for myself
> > > which I like better.
> 
> Debian, I would not do for a laptop. 

I also have to wonder why not.  I have been happily using Debian
unstable on my laptop for two years.  They even have a mailing list
specifically for laptops.  See
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe.

> 
> If you are going the debian route, I would go for the testing. 
> 
> Does Debian, do journaling file system , by default ??

No.  Does testing or unstable even come with a 2.4 kernel?

> 
> Aka no more fsck :) 

Not sure about that.  I'm running ext3, and right now, when I boot, I
get a message saying "EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached,
running e2fsck is recommended"

> 
> Next drive I buy, I am going for xfs from SGI. 
> 
> I can fsck the driver , while I use it . 
> Too cool . 
> 
> 
> I have setup my laptop, with ext3 an I am in love. 
> 
> Dell 8100, pIII 1Ghz, 10 Gig
> 
> w2k: 4.5 Gb fat32  /dev/hda1 
> /boot  ext2        /dev/hda2 
> /    5.5gb ext3    /hda3 
> /swap              /hda4 
> 
> I have open office, for w2k and linux :) 
> I can play quake on the box :) 
> 
> I have every thing setup to just work. 
> 
> Self confessed Redhat Lover. 




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