Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Dual booting w/EMC

Maybe I can shed a little more light on this. Linux NEEDS at least 2
partitions and is more controllable with 3. The minimum is a small SWAP
partition (say 100Mb or 150MB) and another 'root' partition '/' which holds
everything else.
I did say, however, that 3 were better. This is because all your
applications are normally stored in a /usr sub directory. So, if you make
another partition and call it /usr, you will be able tocontrol your
applications better and stop them overflowing into the working directories.
If I were using a 2Gb drive, I would make a SWAP partition of 150Mb, a '/'
partition of 450 or 500 Mb and the rest would be designated as a /usr
partition.
For those who are just coming into linux, it may be worthwhile listing the
function of the main directories - within the '/' (which is equivalent to
C:\ in windoze)directory are the following sub directories:-
/boot - which holds the main kernel images (vmlinuz-** files), the System
map and other main operating system files,
/etc - which has most of the files you are likely to want to modify. These
are similar to windoze .pif files and are the information and setup files
for the various 'programs'. All the ones you can play with are plain text
files and can be modified in one of the text processors but be sure you have
word-wrap turned OFF when you edit these files or they won't work!
/bin and /sbin - these contain the various system-type executables.
/var - this has files such as the system logs which you can consult to see
what the system is doing.
/mnt - this contains the CDROM and FLOPPY drive files when they are mounted.
/dev - contains basic info about all the hardware.
/usr - contains the application files (like the C:\Program Files directory
in windoze) Within the /usr directory is another directory called /local in
which you would normally put applications you install after the initial
installation. It also cantains a directory called /src which is a repository
for system source code and into which you install the kernel source files
when and if you wish to build a new kernel, either to update to a newer
version or to add in functions which you didn't select during the initial
installation.
There is also a directory called /root which is the home directory of the
system administrator. If you log in as root when you start up linux and then
look at the file manager, you will see that you are in this directory by
default and you will need to go up a level to get to '/' and see all the
others.
I hope this makes it a bit clearer for the beginner - I know that when I
started I found this a bit confusing but it all soon began to make sense.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Marconett KM6VV" <KM6VV@...>
>
> Partition Magic can do it without removing windoz98, but I seem to
> recall LILO wanting 2 partitions, one needn't be very large.
>
> HTH
>