Monday, December 18, 2006

Partitioning for openSUSE / Ubuntu / WinME

I got disks of the latest releases of Ubuntu (6.10) and openSUSE (10.2) and installed them on my Dell PC (along with the Windows ME that came with this PC - why not?) The installation order was Windows, openSUSE and Ubuntu.

When installing openSUSE, I used the included partitioning tool to shrink the Windows partition from 10GB to 4GB, leaving the allocated space for openSUSE the same. This left space for the subsequent installation of Ubuntu.

The resulting partitions are:
hda1 vfat 4GB Windows ME
hda2 extended 18.8GB
hda3 ext3 6GB Ubuntu
hda5 initrdswap 780MB (swap off)
hda6 ext3 7.6GB openSUSE
hda7 ext3 11GB openSUSE (used for /home)
hda8 swap 300MB (use swap)

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