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Henry Law <hjl@thelaws.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Well, I've been and gone and ordered a new machine - a P75 with a 1.0 GB
>disk.  It won't arrive for a week or so but I'm passing the time
>thinking about the things which need to be done before letting the
>family loose on it.

>I have no idea how the partition(s) will be set up when it arrives but I
>do know enough about FAT and VFAT to know that a single 1GB partition is
>not a good idea!  I thought in terms of two or three partitions of
>around 200-300 MB for the time being, with the rest of the space "in
>store" for later, but I'd appreciate advice.

>S/W will be Win 3.11 for the time being; Win95 later when I'm happy that
>all the software and drivers I want to use will be 95-ed.  Applications
>will be Lotus SmartSuite, Internet/BBS access and MIDI sequencing via
>something like Cakewalk.

I had a similar quandary when I got my machine home, although my HD is
only 730Mb. I decided on three partitions:-

  c:     250 Mb  containing Windows95 and dos
  d:     229 Mb  for games, data and things
  e:     250Mb  containing OS/2 and all it's utils.

The reason they don't add up to 730 is that I have the OS/2 boot manager
installed and this takes a 1Mb of space.

This is all, of course, just a suggestion.

bri.