Re: More Help on Partitions.

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From: Justin Wills
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:00

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Mal wrote:

>     Thanks a lot guys on the replies to my other questions. Now my next
> dumb question is that I've got a c:\ partition (contains DOS and
> Windows95) and a d:\ partition (containing games and web stuff), do I
> need to create any sub-partitions (logical or extended)? And if I move
> all my valuable stuff from d:\ to c:\, format the d:\ then install Linux
> on it, will that work? I've got 32meg RAM do I really need to create a
> swap partition?

you don't format d:, you remove it.  you will need swap.  you can probably
get away with 32 meg, but twice your ram is reccomended

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Date: 1997/11/12
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