Newbie Question- About Partition

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Aslam Bari wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> I m installing Redhat Linux Enterprise. It comes with GUI installation with
> Disk Druid. I need to install and use best usage of my drives Plz someone
> guide me. Here is the detail of my Disk Drives partitions:-
>
> C:\ Drive 20 GB:- Windows XP
> D:\ Drive 20 GB:- Empty
> E:\ Drive 40 GB:- Empty
>
> RAM:- 256MB
>
> I need to install Linux on E: drive. So i need to know how much space i
> should spend on different sections below

I should point out that Microsoft Windows driver letters are completely 
meaningless in a Linux context.  I'll assume that your "E" drive is a 40GB 
harddisk, and not a random empty partition.

>
> /boot :- ? much size
> /swap:- ? much size
> /       :- ? much size
>
>
> Do i need more sections. Do the sequence is ideal for three sections. If in
> future i increase the RAM , then how can i increase the swap size.

Without knowing how you want to use this system, its really hard to 
provide recommendations.  I'd say let the RHEL installer choose the 
partition layout for you.  BTW, you should not need to adjust the size of 
swap when you add RAM.  Recent 2.6.x kernels  (including those in RHEL4) 
manage RAM effectively such that adding RAM shouldn't require more swap.


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
LlamaLand				http://netllama.linux-sxs.org