Ok heres what i want to do.....

MikePB3 · 03-10-2005, 07:45 PM

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
THANKS

C.Ingram · 03-10-2005, 08:11 PM

Its enough space to get everything installed, but not enough to be of any use.

MikePB3 · 03-10-2005, 09:01 PM

what do you mean???

TheRecluse · 03-10-2005, 09:25 PM

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

uchiha · 03-11-2005, 12:46 AM

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.

03-10-2005, 07:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
MikePB3 Super Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 338	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 THANKS __________________ MPFXB3 \"You can not dream yourself into character you must hammer and forge yourself into one\" Bruce Springsteen

03-10-2005, 08:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
C.Ingram Super Techie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 259	Its enough space to get everything installed, but not enough to be of any use. __________________ Christopher Ingram Principal Consultant, Souken Group, LLC. C.Ingram@SoukenGroup.com (856) 392 5244 -- (866) Go Souken

03-10-2005, 09:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
MikePB3 Super Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 338	what do you mean??? __________________ MPFXB3 \"You can not dream yourself into character you must hammer and forge yourself into one\" Bruce Springsteen

03-10-2005, 09:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
TheRecluse Super Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 467	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 __________________

03-11-2005, 12:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
uchiha True Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 219	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. __________________ [root@root root]$ su

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