[tlinux-users:07496] Re: Anyone having any luck with....

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>Partition Primary/Logical Size Mount
>1 Primary 128 MB /boot
>2 Primary 4 GB swap (I only have 512 MB physical, but plan to upgrade to 2 GB)
>3 Logical 10 GB /home
>4 Logical 5 GB /var
>5 Logical 5 GB /tmp
>6 Logical 75.9 GB /
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First of all, you have to have a / (root) partition. Second, anything 
more than 512 MB for the swap partition is overkill and would not be used.

/ and Home should be primary partitions and the rest either logical or 
extended. If you are going to be running a server of some sort, I'd put 
it in /var and make that primary as well.

I'd partition the drive this way:

/ 1GB -- primary and flagged as bootable
/swap 512 MB
/home 20 GB (at least) -- primary
/var 5GB
/temp 5GB
/usr 15 GB

The idea behind partitioning for a lot of people is that if they decide 
to move to another distro ore for some other reason they need to 
re-install, they can leave /home intact and just format the other 
partitions.(this preserves your data)

I would advise against using a /boot partition unles you have specificly 
instructed Debian to place the kernel there, otherwise you are going to 
have to edit /boot to include a link to the kernel's location. The best 
bet is just to place the kernel in / which is the default. When you do 
the install Grub should be written to the MBR if you are planning to 
duall boot. Grub will, based on your choice of OS, then idicate to the 
bios where the appropriate bootable partition is located and the slected 
OS will be loaded.

Your machine has an Atheros wireless card so you will have to use 
ndiswrapper to get it to work since there aren't any native linux 
drivers for these cards as yet.

HTH.

John