Win 95 and Linux Partitions.

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5 total messages Started by Roddy Strachan Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

#287

Author: Roddy Strachan
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

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Hi,
	At the momenty i have a 260 meg HDD with Windows 95 on it.
Now i have a blank 340 meg ready for Redhat Linux 4.1 to be installed.
What i wish to do is, make 240 meg of the 340 meg hard disk for LINUX.
And the other 100 meg for WINDOWS 95 programs etc.  Can i do this or
does Linux need to have the full 340 meg???

ta

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Re: Win 95 and Linux Partitions.

#288

Author: David Gibson
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

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Roddy Strachan (rod@ipax.com.au) wrote:
: Hi,
: 	At the momenty i have a 260 meg HDD with Windows 95 on it.
: Now i have a blank 340 meg ready for Redhat Linux 4.1 to be installed.
: What i wish to do is, make 240 meg of the 340 meg hard disk for LINUX.
: And the other 100 meg for WINDOWS 95 programs etc.  Can i do this or
: does Linux need to have the full 340 meg???

You certainly can, though you might find 240Mb a little tight for Linux.

--
David Gibson @ The Lorax	| New from Microsoft...
D.Gibson@bohm.anu.edu.au	| 	THNEED 95
				| Which everyone, Everyone, EVERYONE needs.

Re: Win 95 and Linux Partitions.

#289

Author: Werner Scholz
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

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On Sun, 11 May 1997 00:24:08 GMT, rod@ipax.com.au (Roddy Strachan)
wrote:

>Hi,
>	At the momenty i have a 260 meg HDD with Windows 95 on it.
>Now i have a blank 340 meg ready for Redhat Linux 4.1 to be installed.
>What i wish to do is, make 240 meg of the 340 meg hard disk for LINUX.
>And the other 100 meg for WINDOWS 95 programs etc.  Can i do this or
>does Linux need to have the full 340 meg???
>
>ta
>
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>| IPAX Systems                      | IPAX Fax:         (03) 9801-8533    |
>| Systems Administrator             | IPAX Postal:      GPO BOX 94A       |
>| E-mail: rod@ipax.com.au           |                   Melbourne, Vic    |
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You should better use the full 340 Meg if you plan to use Xwindows
etc.

Bye, Werner

Re: Win 95 and Linux Partitions.

#290

Author: Peter Bernard West
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:00

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David Gibson wrote:
> 
> Roddy Strachan (rod@ipax.com.au) wrote:
> : Hi,
> :       At the momenty i have a 260 meg HDD with Windows 95 on it.
> : Now i have a blank 340 meg ready for Redhat Linux 4.1 to be installed.
> : What i wish to do is, make 240 meg of the 340 meg hard disk for LINUX.
> : And the other 100 meg for WINDOWS 95 programs etc.  Can i do this or
> : does Linux need to have the full 340 meg???
> 
> You certainly can, though you might find 240Mb a little tight for Linux.
> 
> --
> David Gibson @ The Lorax        | New from Microsoft...
> D.Gibson@bohm.anu.edu.au        |       THNEED 95
>                                 | Which everyone, Everyone, EVERYONE needs.

If this bloke can run win95 in 260 megs, he can run linux in 240, no
worries.  He will just have to be a bit frugal.  I once installed a
Slackware version of linux on a 420 meg drive that was shared with a
win3.1 system.  I think it had about 280 megs.  For linux as distributed
with Applixware student edition, the recommended space for linux with X
is 100Mb!!!

Yours faithfully,
Peter
-- 
 __ /__   Peter B. West
   /     p.west@mailbox.uq.edu.au
  /    "Master, to whom shall we go?"

Re: Win 95 and Linux Partitions.

#284

Author: Antony Street
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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The problem might more be one of trying to fit Micro$ofts bloatware in 100
Mb and getting anything useful out of it!

antony@vigen.com.au

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