Semi-newbie to Linux, Complete newbie here.
Ok, Well this is my first time posting here so hang in with me. I have experimented with Linux in the past, but hae now decied to take the plunge and dedicate myself to hardcore learning of Linux. I am currently in a bit of a dillema here. I know it is usually good practice to partition your HD as to prevent loss of data (Found out the hard way the first time I dabbled in Linux, luckly I had linux on another HD.) Anyways I am currently in the process of determining how to partitopn my HD up, I have seen reccomendations but I thought I pass my idea of an HD partition scheme to you guys to see what you all think.
I know that I am going to put Linux on my secondary hard drive and that it is going to be divided in half. The first half will contain Linux and the second will contain my current NTFS partition(No OS) Within the Linux half of my HD I am looking at arranging it like this...
Any suggestiosns would be appreciated.
I was also wondering about something else. I plan on trying to use the windows bootloader in the MBR instead of LILO or GRUB, I know the basic process and feel comfortable doing the work , but I was wondering if I could use knoppix to excute the appropiate command instead of a boot floppy and then write the linux.bin file over to my FAT partition on my primary HD. So in essance I want to do this: Install Linux, choose bootloader and install it into /boot, then boot into knoppix or DSL and execute a dd command to create a linux.bin file, go back inot windows and add the appropiate line into the boot.ini file. Does that sound about right?
Anyways thanks for listening and I hope one of you guys can help out.
I know that I am going to put Linux on my secondary hard drive and that it is going to be divided in half. The first half will contain Linux and the second will contain my current NTFS partition(No OS) Within the Linux half of my HD I am looking at arranging it like this...
Partition | Partition Contents | Size | Filesystem |
hdb1 | /boot | 50 MB | ext2fs |
hdb2 | NTFS Partition | 10 GB | NTFS |
hdb3 | Extended Partition | N/A | N/A |
hdb5 | / | 200 MB | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
hdb6 | /usr | 2.5 GB | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
hdb7 | /usr/local | 2.5 GB | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
hdb8 | /var | 500 MB | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
hdb9 | /tmp | 350 MB | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
hdb10 | Swap | 768 MB | Swap |
hdb11 | /home | Rest | ext3fs or ReiserFS |
Any suggestiosns would be appreciated.
I was also wondering about something else. I plan on trying to use the windows bootloader in the MBR instead of LILO or GRUB, I know the basic process and feel comfortable doing the work , but I was wondering if I could use knoppix to excute the appropiate command instead of a boot floppy and then write the linux.bin file over to my FAT partition on my primary HD. So in essance I want to do this: Install Linux, choose bootloader and install it into /boot, then boot into knoppix or DSL and execute a dd command to create a linux.bin file, go back inot windows and add the appropiate line into the boot.ini file. Does that sound about right?
Anyways thanks for listening and I hope one of you guys can help out.
