<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Robert Reese~ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Okay, kinda dumb questions:<br>
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I just got a 1TB drive to replace a bad 200GB system drive in an AMD 64 cheapo Compaq Walmart Vista computer (god I ***HATE*** Vista!!). I cloned over from the old drive, leaving me with nearly 800GB of available space. In addition to the Vista partition I want to have the following set up:<br>
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The requisite boot partition(s) with both Ubuntu 8.10 Kubuntu with KDE 4.1<br>
A separate shared Linux data partition - 250GB<br>
The requisite swap partition<br>
And the remainder space as shared NTFS data space where I will keep my documents and desktops from Vista.<br>
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I intend on maxing out the ram to 4GB and running VMWare Workstation under Ubuntu/Kubuntu and migrating to using VMs of MS operating systems whenever possible instead of booting straight to Vista.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Cool. Sounds like a good plan. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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So the stupid questions I have are:<br>
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What size to make the boot partitions, and can I get away with just one and simply choose which desktop environment I want to run?</blockquote><div><br>One boot partition is fine. 100MB is plenty. Grub will point to the vista partition for boot so no windows bits get stored in /boot <br>
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What size for the swap partition since I have all the space I want?</blockquote><div><br>The old adage of twice the swap space as ram is no longer valid given than ram sizes are so much larger. From much reading of kernel devels discussions, the current mentality is twice the ram as swap up to 2GB RAM/ 4GB swap. After that, more swap space will no longer be a benefit. So plan on 4GB RAM + 4 GB swap.<br>
<br>If you _still_ run out of ram, try closing firefox more often :-)<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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Thanks much,<br>
Robert~<br>
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