I'm thinking of dual booting Linux on my laptop currently running W7. How much hard disk space should I partition? I was thinking around 10-20 GB. I just put in a 320 GB HD so there's plenty of space if I should use more. I don't really have a practical reason for doing this other than I want to.
how much hd space for dual booting Linux?
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I would set aside 15 or 20gb for the OS installation and then another partition roughly double the size of the amount of ram you have for use as a swap partition. So if you had 1gb of ram you set aside a 2gb partition for use as swap. It's like the windows swapfile, just on a completely separate partition.
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I would set aside 15 or 20gb for the OS installation and then another partition roughly double the size of the amount of ram you have for use as a swap partition. So if you had 1gb of ram you set aside a 2gb partition for use as swap. It's like the windows swapfile, just on a completely separate partition.
Yup. A full Gentoo Linux setup on my laptop with KDE and the bells and whistles is taking about 7GB.
I would set aside 15 or 20gb for the OS installation and then another partition roughly double the size of the amount of ram you have for use as a swap partition. So if you had 1gb of ram you set aside a 2gb partition for use as swap. It's like the windows swapfile, just on a completely separate partition.
Yup. A full Gentoo Linux setup on my laptop with KDE and the bells and whistles is taking about 7GB.
I have Ubuntu set up as a VM on my work desktop, I have only 384MB RAM and 4GB disk space assigned to it, works great!
What VM are you using?
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Considering you might want more (as I did) if running Win et al in a VM.
Lately, I've been running Ubuntu 9.10 natively on my laptop and then using Sun's virtualbox (which is free) to create a virtual instance of Windows7 on top of that. I've also got a rarely used virtual XP instance that I need to use from time to time when I need to test Explorer 6's quirks on a consulting client's website. That's been working great for me so far. On my 100gb drive, I give 15gb to Win7 and 10gb to XP. The rest belongs to Ubuntu.
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