On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:03:00PM -0600, Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote: > I'm going to do a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 on a dual boot system with > WinXP. I've read that making a 7mg /boot partition makes it easy to use > the Windows boot.ini file to choose operating systems. I also now have > 512mg of ram. Does the 2x rule still apply for the swap partition? This > seams like overkill (and a waste of drive space). In the past I've been > using a 4.5gb / & a 3.0gb /home. How does this sound? This is just a > home machine with no server duties. Thanks The swap = 2 x ram is no longer true for workstations. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011103/b6c793ea/attachment.pgp