• How to configure partitions correctly?
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Well I was going to install arch linux with the following settings earlier: Windows 7 Primary Bootable 224000 mb /boot 32 mb Primary (do I make this bootable or the root?) /swap 2000 mb Logical Non-Bootable (Should I use 2GB because I have 2GB ram and I read somewhere that you should keep it that same amount as your ram) /root 4000 mb Primary (Read brackets from the /boot) /home the_rest mb Primary (Problem is, when I was going to create this partition it unusable in the file system category so I could not create a partition out of it). So I need answers and solutions for the things and brackets. Also, for grub, what partitions(s) do I need to install it on (I heard somewhere you need to install on both the root and windows partitions). Oh and, is this the proper grub entry? [code]title Windows 7 rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 [/code] This is arch linux if it matters.
You do not need to set the bootable flag for anything other than windows. The swap partition should be [I]at least[/I] the size of your ram. Mine is twice the size, other people will say more. It really depends on how much memory you plan on consuming. (Swap is for extra physical memory. If a program tries to allocate more memory than the system has available, bad shit starts happening. Like random processes die.) If you are going to be using a lot of memory, make a bigger swap. Set swap to Linux swap id. Need nothing special for root or home. Not bootable, set these to normal Linux partitions. Windows 7 partition should be set to HPFS/NTFS format id. Oh, and that should work for the windows grub entry, provided this is the master hard disk in your system. A linux entry should look like this: [code] title=Arch Linux root (hd0,1) kernel /<kernel image> root=/dev/sda4 [/code]
Now the only problem is the unusable space.
What unusable space?
[QUOTE=lanfarm;16364128] /home the_rest mb Primary (Problem is, when I was going to create this partition it my unallocated space in the file system category so I could not create a partition out of it). [/QUOTE] This one.
What? That makes no goddamn sense. [editline]10:56AM[/editline] Oh! I know what is going on! Disk drives only let you have a maximum of 4 primary partitions on any single device. You are going to either have to put one of those partitions on another physical disk, or put /home into /root or something, or use a logical partition instead of a primary one.
Open Gparted, and fix your shit. Can't be that difficult.
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