Subject: Re: partition sizes?
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/14/1998 23:14:35
At 06:38 PM 8/14/98 -0700, Space Case wrote:
>My son, who is used to running games on Win95, has been watching me
>run NetBSD with KDE and thinks it's so cool that he wants it on the
>new computer I'll be buying him.  My question is, if I get a big HD
>that'll have room for his games and for NetBSD, what size and order
>should I make the partitions?  I figure, on a 5-6GB drive, having a
>2GB Win partition and root/swap/usr for NetBSD...
>
>Thanks,
>~Steve

Sounds like plenty enough to start with, he can always rebuild the box and
reinstall on the entire drive :-)
Check out something like partition magic or System Commander for the multi
OS boot.

-mike

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>

Michael C. Ibarra

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