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Re: Jewish List (was: Re: The new kid on the block.)



Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> This is a Jewish list - each two participants have three different
> opinions in which they beg to differ...
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Erez Doron wrote:
> 
> > shay.meshulam@aks.com wrote:
> 
> > > Q: Is there an option to install Linux on one partition and, let say, some
> > > other windows operating system on the other?
> > yes there is, but why whould you want MS-Windows for ? ;-)
> >
> > well, you have to format one partition with windows FS
> > and one with linux FS.
> 
> 1. Not exactly true.  For Linux you need minimum of two partitions (other
>    people might tell you that if you have lots of memory in your PC, you
>    don't need swap partition, but be safe, don't listen to them :-) ):
>    * Swap partition - small (64MB-128MB is all that you need)
>    * Linux file system partition - the rest.
do not take it too literary ! i think he ment dual boot, and not
'exactly 2 partitions'.

in any case:
Though it is beter to have a swap partition, you may instead
1. do not use swap at all, or:
2. use a swap file on either your linux or windows partition


regards
erez