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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I need help installing Fedora Core 3 on my
laptop.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>My goal is to learn Linux enough to stop
using windows.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I have win2k on my laptop. PIII
~900MHz. 512MB ram. 20GB hard drive. Currently win2k only has 10001MB of
my hard drive. Under windows, there is another primary partition that is
unformatted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I inserted the FC3 cd and rebooted. I
got to the point where the Anaconda wizard tries to partion the remaining
portion of my hard drive for me. I get an error that says something about
not being a primary partition or something. So I use Disk Druid to setup
the partitions like the Book I'm using suggests.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I'm reading the text by Sobell, "Practical
Guide to Red Hat Linux".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>The text suggests the following for
partions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>/boot 100
megabytes</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>/ 500
megabytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>(swap) two times the
amount of ram</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>/home As large as
necessary, depends upon # of users</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>/tmp Minimum 100
megabytes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>/usr Minimum
1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>/var Minimum 500
Megabytes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Well you've probably already guessed that
the / account is too small, I get an uncaught exception error that says I should
have had 2515MB of space for the root partition. There are three choices,
if I remember correctly and I chose "OK", which froze the laptop and I hard to
do a hard boot to restart the laptop. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I am only installing the default packages
to learn what is there before I do a custom install.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Can someone recommend a better partion
schema for an approximate 10 GB hard drive?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>I would appreciate the list's
help.</FONT></DIV>
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