04-27-2014, 01:17 AM
Hello!
gold_finger is our resident partitioning expert, and his tutorials are excellent. Nonetheless, I WILL tell you THIS:
EVERYTHING you want to keep id that 'less than 1 GB' HAS to be moved OFF your drive E: BEFORE you delete that partition, because you'll lose all the data you have left there if you don't. Also, if you resize any of your Windows partitions, boot into XP after you do, so that XP can run a CHKDSK on the resized NTFS partitions.
You sound like you have your partitioning scheme pretty well thought out. 30 GB + a 2 GB swap area will be plenty for a beginner's Linux Lite system. If you have another hard drive (or an external one), and you CAN, back up what you have now using Redo Backup before changing ANYTHING. That way, you can restore what you had if something goes wrong.
As a rule of thumb, I choose to resize and define my partitions - including the swap area - by using the Partition Editor (GPartEd) on the LiveCD BEFORE performing the actual installation. That way, I already have my partitioning structure set up when I run the installer, and only have to tell the installer to format the Linux Lite partition, set the mount point as / (root), and to also install GRUB on sda...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
gold_finger is our resident partitioning expert, and his tutorials are excellent. Nonetheless, I WILL tell you THIS:
EVERYTHING you want to keep id that 'less than 1 GB' HAS to be moved OFF your drive E: BEFORE you delete that partition, because you'll lose all the data you have left there if you don't. Also, if you resize any of your Windows partitions, boot into XP after you do, so that XP can run a CHKDSK on the resized NTFS partitions.
You sound like you have your partitioning scheme pretty well thought out. 30 GB + a 2 GB swap area will be plenty for a beginner's Linux Lite system. If you have another hard drive (or an external one), and you CAN, back up what you have now using Redo Backup before changing ANYTHING. That way, you can restore what you had if something goes wrong.
As a rule of thumb, I choose to resize and define my partitions - including the swap area - by using the Partition Editor (GPartEd) on the LiveCD BEFORE performing the actual installation. That way, I already have my partitioning structure set up when I run the installer, and only have to tell the installer to format the Linux Lite partition, set the mount point as / (root), and to also install GRUB on sda...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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