Dual Booting with Windows XP and Linux

[leapingfrog0]

I want to dual boot this computer with Windows XP and RedHat Linux. I have a 60GB HD, and I'm wondering how many GB should I give each OS? I will use Windows primarily and RedHat linux just for messing around with stuff, experiementing, learning, etc. I will use Linux often, but will be using Windows mainly, how much would you say to give each OS?

Also, I have another hard drive just for the files I've downloaded off the net. This drive is formatted with NTFS, will linux be able to open up my downloads? I want to share this hard drive between both OS's.

Thanks for your help,

Andrew

 

[bluesky]

I would give 10g to XP and 5 to 6g to RH.
You better format the rest of drive as fat32 to make the drive accessible by both.

 

[civad]

You should probably have @ 500 MB swap partition as well...

(If possible, format the entire 60 gig HDD, with @ 50 gig for Fat32, 9-9.5 gig for Linux , 0.5-1 gig for Swap.)

As far as the other HDD is concerned, you could prolly format this one as Fat 32 as well...

 

[matheusber]

how much RAM do you have ?

i have 256MB and just 128MB for Swap ...
i use to hear you must have twice the amount of your RAM ... but i really dont feel like use HD for this ... its up to you ...

i have a 2.4GB ext2 partition and another 1.4GB for my temps files, other stuff i get and wouldnt like to loose in a reinstall ... so i wouldnt make a 6GB partition ... better ( for me ) 2 ( or even 3 ) 3GB ( of couse 2 GB )

well, its just an idea ...

matheus

 

[Tiger]

I've got my 30G setup like this.
C:\ 10G W2K, NTFS
D:\ 10G W2K, NTFS, data
Gentoo Linux 10G
100M /boot
512M /swap
3G /
5G /usr
1.3G /var

Or about 2/3 winders and 1/3 Linux.

 

[leapingfrog0]

You can see my current setup with the link in my sig. All the info is up-to-date except the new 40GB HD. I have 512MB of RAM.

I'm thinking of giving RedHat 10GB and setting it up like Tiger has it. Would this work? Would I need to make the swap file any larger? I'd give XP the rest of the 50GB, and format the 2nd HD to FAT32 so both OS's can read/write to it (correct?)

What do you think?

 

[matheusber]

Originally posted by: leapingfrog0
You can see my current setup with the link in my sig. All the info is up-to-date except the new 40GB HD. I have 512MB of RAM.

I'm thinking of giving RedHat 10GB and setting it up like Tiger has it. Would this work? Would I need to make the swap file any larger? I'd give XP the rest of the 50GB, and format the 2nd HD to FAT32 so both OS's can read/write to it (correct?)

What do you think?

yes, both can read/write in FAT32

matheus

 

[leapingfrog0]

I'm only a few hours from going to linux... but I have one more question: Do I need to adjust my swap size from 512MB to 1GB? (double RAM)

Thanks for the replies!

Andrew

 

[matheusber]

Originally posted by: leapingfrog0
I'm only a few hours from going to linux... but I have one more question: Do I need to adjust my swap size from 512MB to 1GB? (double RAM)

Thanks for the replies!

Andrew

i really wouldnt ... i have 256MB and 128MB swap and it didnt uses half the swap ... if this is a server ok, but a home pc ...

matheus