Partition help

[jim lawrence]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:42:28 -0700, Leo Donahue <elmoses at cox.net> wrote:
>  
>  
> I need help installing Fedora Core 3 on my laptop. 
>   
> My goal is to learn Linux enough to stop using windows. 
>   
> I have win2k on my laptop.  PIII ~900MHz. 512MB ram. 20GB hard drive. 
> Currently win2k only has 10001MB of my hard drive.  Under windows, there is
> another primary partition that is unformatted. 
>   
> I inserted the FC3 cd and rebooted.  I got to the point where the Anaconda
> wizard tries to partion the remaining portion of my hard drive for me.  I
> get an error that says something about not being a primary partition or
> something.  So I use Disk Druid to setup the partitions like the Book I'm
> using suggests. 
>   
> I'm reading the text by Sobell, "Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux". 
>   
> The text suggests the following for partions: 
>   
> /boot    100 megabytes 
> /        500 megabytes 
> (swap)   two times the amount of ram 
> /home    As large as necessary, depends upon # of users 
> /tmp     Minimum 100 megabytes 
> /usr     Minimum 1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install 
> /var     Minimum 500 Megabytes 
>   
> Well you've probably already guessed that the / account is too small, I get
> an uncaught exception error that says I should have had 2515MB of space for
> the root partition.  There are three choices, if I remember correctly and I
> chose "OK", which froze the laptop and I hard to do a hard boot to restart
> the laptop.   
>   
> I am only installing the default packages to learn what is there before I do
> a custom install. 
>   
> Can someone recommend a better partion schema for an approximate 10 GB hard
> drive? 
>   
> I would appreciate the list's help. 
>   
> Thanks. 
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it might be the primary partition causing the error
see my disc info attachment  from my notebook 
create 3 partitions  
/boot  100 mb
/swap  2000mb
/ root  the rest of the drive

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