RH 7.2 + Win XP partitioning

[neit]

howdy,

I currently have a 60 giger split with 40 to winxp and 20 to red had (i have 1024 x 40 for windows, the rest for red hat =]). It was simple to do, just set windows on boot to do the 40, and the red hat to do the rest.

I'm having problems a few problems in win right now, but i'm not in the mood to fix them, rather i want to blast it and repartition the my hard drive again and reinstall linux (red hat isn't set up all the way, and i'm thinking of switching distros). What is the best way to do this if i want 10, 10, and 20 gigs for windows? I was thinking of formatting the drive, installing windows on 10 gigs, and then assuming there was a way in windows to make another 10 and 20 into NTFS, but i haven't had time to figure that out. I don't have a floppy in there, just a burner that i use as my boot drive to get win and linus installed.

Also, anyone got any reccomendations as to how they set up partitions on linux and why they chose them? I've been trying to find a simple website that explains how to use other partitions, but its seems kinda over my head still.

 

[Heisenberg]

When you install Windows, you can partition the drive however you like and then install Windows to one partition. After it's installed, go to Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management and you can format and assign drive letters to the other partitions.

As far as linux partitions, you need at least a "/" and a swap partition. Sometimes you also need a small (~50M) "/boot" partition depending on hard drive setup.