1st Red Hat Linux Install

[Euclid]

I'm installing Linux for the 1st time on my Athlon kx133 system.....

How many partitions do you need for the install?
What size should the swap be?
Are there any issues with running it off a second ide channel?

 

[fogleroller]

you will get an option to partition during installation
use disk druid instead of Fdisk, it's a lot easier.

I have mine set up like this ( have it on a 4Gig HDD )

/ 2Gb
/home 2Gb
swap 1Gb (this is a seperate hard drive)

On my other installations, i just set Swap to 256Mb

If you have an extra hard drive that you want to use for storage or what have you, all the better. So when you reinstall, all your downloads or data that is on that drive will remain.

i labeled mine as /extra or /storage

Different people do it different ways, you can do this and then on your other installs (the first on is usually just for practice) you can customize it to your needs.

This is just my input.

good luck

 

[CTho9305]

I have a tbird with a kx133... 30 gig hard drive.

20 gigs is windows
8 is linux ("/&quot
2 is linux swap

I use lilo to dual-boot (edit the /etc/lilo.conf and see if there is a line "linear". If there is, make it lba32 for drives over 8 gig). what version of red hat are you using? 7.1 is the latest.

 

[bubba]

! or 2 GB of swap is way too much for the normal user. For a first time install, I usually reccommend just making 127MB of swap and a few GB for /. Then play with it. Then reinstall and reconfigure (which everyone does) and partition as you like once you have built up your knowledge.

 

[ddiccico]

you can go a few ways as far as partitioning your drive: you could create separate partitions for /,/home,/usr,/tmp,/var (& swap), or you could use one big root partition & a swap.

having /home on a separate drive means you won't lose all your files if you have to reformat/reinstall linux, so a lot of people just use a 1 - 2 gig for root, and the rest for /home (mine's 4 gigs).

the general rule for swap is swap size = physical ram - up to a point, though. anything over 256 MB swap is overkill - especially on a workstation.

using the 2nd ide channel won't be a problem.