Installation Problems.

[Nostalgia]

I need someone to tell me how much space i need to assign to each section. I'm not sure what the word is, so i am just using "section". These sections include /, for root, /boot, etc. I have tried installing once before, and i got an error about having too little space assigned to each of these sections.

I tried going back, but the installer said that partitions have already been completed, and i can no longer go back because the partitioning process is complete.

Nos.

[ghaefb]

Quick answer:

/ - root partition -> 3GB minimum
swap - swap partition -> usually 2x your RAM space
/home - your home partition -> The rest of your space

It's not necessary to have separate partitions for other mount points like: /boot, /var,...
This three will do just fine :)

[imdeemvp]

for a good installation you need at least 4.5gb of hd space....if you are using a small hd (e.g. 5gb) i dont recommend it you should have at least 10gb of space for fedora core 1 or 2

[Nostalgia]

I have an entire 80GB hard drive i want to give in to Linux.

Does anyone have a link to a full walkthrough of some sort? I found myself a bit confused on many parts of the installation, and i plan on formatting and trying to install again within the week, but a walkthrough would help.

Sorry if i sound a bit newbish.

Nos.

[imdeemvp]

in the case....let drake do the partitioning for you....i would select use entire disk....you are not going to have a problem :D

[bzimage]

swap - swap partition -> usually 2x your RAM space

i dont think this is a good way. If you have 512M Ram ,and make a 1024M swap, it will not be usfull, on the contrary , it will slow down you linux system. in my suggestion , if your ram is less than 128M swap be 2x your Ram, otherwise be 256M . this will work effectively

[Nostalgia]

I have 1GB of PC-3200 RAM.

Nos.

[crackers]

The "swap = 2x RAM" is actually an older guideline, which with the introduction of 2.6 seems to be a bit much. This particular rule of thumb was practically required in the kernel 1.2 days, as the memory manager and the hardware limits really, really, really needed much more "memory" than systems would typically hold. The wife's workstation (FC1) has 512 Mb memory and 1 Gb swap - she has an "uptime" of over 140 days and is currently only using 160Mb of the swap. I've got FC2 with the same configuration, but uptime is 11 days - with zero swap usage - and I run a lot of memory-intensive programs (like J2EE application servers). The "victim" machine (Fc1) only has 256 Mb RAM and 512 Mb swap - with only 27Mb being used.

I would say a 1Gb swap partition is more than you'll ever need, especally on a "modern" machine with 512Mb or more. Swap is only really needed on low-physical memory installations. Besides, anything larger than 1Gb is starting to get silly...

[imdeemvp]

thank you crackers!!!!

i totally agree with you :D

[ghaefb]

Agree..

Sory, didn't have time do explain the details.
Just wanted to give quick answer, and that's why you guys are here.
right? :p

[crackers]

Mr. Nit-Picker - that's me!

Of course, those little nits can really bite sometimes!!! :D