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Originally Posted by pmacdonald  Do I create a primary partition before entering the Linux CD into my CD-ROM drive? | You just need to have free space, the installer usually allows you to create, delete and set up partitions. However, if you want, you can create them before entering the installer, it doesn't harm either. Both ways are ok. Quote: |
How should I set up my HDD partitions as far as swap space and the other Linux install is concerned (the tinkering Linux)?
| Each one has his preferences here. But what I'd do is this: - shrink the windows partition, that is a primary partition, no need to care about that one
- create an extended partition with all the free space
- inside the extended partition, create as much logical drives as linux versions you want to install + 1 for swap, the swap partition can be shared between all the distros, and it's size would be usually between 512 mb and the size of your ram (if you want to use hibernation and things like that)
The size of the each partition will only depend on what do you plan to install. |