04-26-2014, 04:02 PM
I have a 2009 Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile 250 Gb and 2 Gb Ram and 3 USB's and a DVD.
Win XP 32 Sp3 has C drive , sda 1 84Gb NTFS and D drive 78 Gb sda 5 which is full of documents mainly, NTFS and E: drive sda 6 which is 88 Gb and NTFS and which I have emptied of all but less than 1 Gb of stuff in order to put Linux Lite 1.08 on it .
I have 30 Gb free space in drive C for my XP work.
I have been told to 1. Delete drive E , sda 6 and create 2 logical partitions ONE of 50Ggb NTFS and the Second Linux /ext4 root partition + Linux Swap space of 1-2 Ggb and to leave about 8-10 Ggb of unallocated space for windows .
I am unsure what to do
1. I will select the "something else option" 2. I will select sda 6 then a) Do I format the whole E drive? b) When I select 50Ggb for the NTFS partition do I select DOS or Windows in the mount menu? c) What will that NTFS partition be used for ? With XP or with Linux? d) To do this I must write it to disc and there is no undoing after that point . e) Linux Swap has to be 1-2 Ggb or can I make it more to improve my RAM ability? which is 2Ggb?....It seems my /ext4 Linux partition will be about 25-27 Ggb.I need to know also what MOUNTING is or does and f) What names do I give the partitions and mounts .
The Linux Lite OS Installation guide is inadequate and does not explain what to do with these issues .
I would appreciate your guidance there.
Win XP 32 Sp3 has C drive , sda 1 84Gb NTFS and D drive 78 Gb sda 5 which is full of documents mainly, NTFS and E: drive sda 6 which is 88 Gb and NTFS and which I have emptied of all but less than 1 Gb of stuff in order to put Linux Lite 1.08 on it .
I have 30 Gb free space in drive C for my XP work.
I have been told to 1. Delete drive E , sda 6 and create 2 logical partitions ONE of 50Ggb NTFS and the Second Linux /ext4 root partition + Linux Swap space of 1-2 Ggb and to leave about 8-10 Ggb of unallocated space for windows .
I am unsure what to do
1. I will select the "something else option" 2. I will select sda 6 then a) Do I format the whole E drive? b) When I select 50Ggb for the NTFS partition do I select DOS or Windows in the mount menu? c) What will that NTFS partition be used for ? With XP or with Linux? d) To do this I must write it to disc and there is no undoing after that point . e) Linux Swap has to be 1-2 Ggb or can I make it more to improve my RAM ability? which is 2Ggb?....It seems my /ext4 Linux partition will be about 25-27 Ggb.I need to know also what MOUNTING is or does and f) What names do I give the partitions and mounts .
The Linux Lite OS Installation guide is inadequate and does not explain what to do with these issues .
I would appreciate your guidance there.