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Old 03-10-2005, 07:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Exclamation Ok heres what i want to do.....

At the moment I have 1 Hard Drive(40 GB) but insted of paritioning it I want to add another Hard Drive(6-8 GB) and then i want to download abput 3 OS's on the second 1 (between Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo) and then either boot up 2 windows on the 40 GB or one of the others on the 6-8 GB is 6-8 enough and will that work, Anyone help me out and tell me any additional things i need 2 do
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Old 03-10-2005, 08:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Its enough space to get everything installed, but not enough to be of any use.
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Old 03-10-2005, 09:01 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
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what do you mean???
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Old 03-10-2005, 09:25 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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so you want windows on the 40gig, and the 2 linux distros on the 6-8gig?

everything should boot fine, it doesn't matter where your OSs are
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Old 03-11-2005, 12:46 AM   #5 (permalink)
 
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linux should take up about 500 mb tops if you install it bare but with all the necessary libraries, full blown would be 1.5 gb, with double your ram as swap space.

So assuming you have 256 MB of ram, then a full blown linux installation with swap space is 1.5 GB +512 MB which would be 2 GB average for each linux install.
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