G'day all,
I have a brand-new Dell inspiron pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 and on which I am hoping to set up a Linux distro in a dual-boot configuration. The machine has 1 TB HDD and 8 GB RAM. I have already shrunk the Windows system partition (C:) to 80 GB and setup a separate 400 GB NTFS partition for Win data and/or sharing with Linux. I once successfully managed to get Fedora dual-booted with WinXP on a laptop, but that was a long time ago (Fedora 10 or 12 IIRC).
I've decided on openSUSE 3.1 and have downloaded the full .iso and set it up on a bootable USB drive. I was expecting to be able to set up the Linux partitions during the install process. I had planned to set up 3 partitions: 8 GB for swap (= RAM size), up to 50 GB for /, and the rest of the disk for /home. I was planning to mount the earlier-partitioned NTFS chunk on /media/blah.
However the installer recommends only 2 GB for swap and 20 GB for root. Choosing to edit this and resize the partitions, the installer insists on these values being maxima; I can choose lesser values but not greater.
So we come to the questions:
1. How can I allocate larger swap and root partitions during the install process?
2. How much space ought to be sufficient for these partitions? I'd always thought swap should be at least as big as RAM, and that it didn't hurt to leave a bit of space on / for future updates, software installs, etc. However I suspect that the OpenSUSE installer is limiting these values for good reason ...
and was I wise to allocate the NTFS shared-partition (to be mounted on /media/foo) from Windows?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I have a brand-new Dell inspiron pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 and on which I am hoping to set up a Linux distro in a dual-boot configuration. The machine has 1 TB HDD and 8 GB RAM. I have already shrunk the Windows system partition (C:) to 80 GB and setup a separate 400 GB NTFS partition for Win data and/or sharing with Linux. I once successfully managed to get Fedora dual-booted with WinXP on a laptop, but that was a long time ago (Fedora 10 or 12 IIRC).
I've decided on openSUSE 3.1 and have downloaded the full .iso and set it up on a bootable USB drive. I was expecting to be able to set up the Linux partitions during the install process. I had planned to set up 3 partitions: 8 GB for swap (= RAM size), up to 50 GB for /, and the rest of the disk for /home. I was planning to mount the earlier-partitioned NTFS chunk on /media/blah.
However the installer recommends only 2 GB for swap and 20 GB for root. Choosing to edit this and resize the partitions, the installer insists on these values being maxima; I can choose lesser values but not greater.
So we come to the questions:
1. How can I allocate larger swap and root partitions during the install process?
2. How much space ought to be sufficient for these partitions? I'd always thought swap should be at least as big as RAM, and that it didn't hurt to leave a bit of space on / for future updates, software installs, etc. However I suspect that the OpenSUSE installer is limiting these values for good reason ...
and was I wise to allocate the NTFS shared-partition (to be mounted on /media/foo) from Windows?
Thanks in advance for any advice.