Partitioning

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/25/2009 02:02 PM, Kirk wrote:
> I'm currently running only Fedora10. I installed it a few months ago.
> I know very little about partitioning.
>
> I'd like to setup partitions so I can install windowsXP and Ubuntu
> to see what its like.  
>
> The /dev/sda1 has the ext3 file system with 196.60 MiB (162.50 unused)
> and the /dev/sda2 with 232.69 GiB (all unused), is listed as unknown.
>
> Do I need to format an NTSF partition for windows, an ext2 for
> Ubuntu, and a Swap for the Linux programs?  I suppose each is a
> separate operation? Is there any particular order? And what should the
> minimum size be for each partition.
>
> I've installed GParted, but am afraid I'll screw it up.
>
> I've been searching for answers in the forum & manuals but haven't been
> able to find what I need.  Naturally, any links that would help me with
> this would also be appreciated.
>   
I'm coming in a bit late on this, but I would strongly suggest in your 
case to use virtualization. Let Fedora10 take up the entire system, then 
install one of the virtual machine managers (KVM/QEMU come with the 
distro), Sun's Virtualbox 2.1 http://www.virtualbox.org/ is also an 
excellent virtual machine manager, Xen works nicely and VMWare is the 
guy that started it all in Unix Space (although virtualization goes back 
at least to the 1960s). I've got KVM on my desktop with Windows Vista 
and Windows XP, and I've got Virtualbox 2.1 on my laptop with Windows 
XP.  Certainly you can multi-boot, but managing this can be a pain.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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