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So a general rule of the thumb for swap is twice the RAM? |
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My God, This world is sure a small place!!
I bought a HP laptop just 4 months ago. After 3 weeks of hell now I have: WinXP, VISTA, Ubuntu7.04 Never use the recovery disk (It SUX bad), download Gpart or some linux partition software for better results, and DONT remove the partition with recovery HP. And bytheway you cannot access ext3 or any linux type with Windows, but you CAN access windows from linux for your files. So you can have a common NTFS part for your music and movies and other pirated $hit which can be accessed thru M$ and Linux both. I went thru about 20 diff sites for this help and believe me it will be invaluable to read up on this!! I dont use swap, if you got 1~2GB RAM then there is no need for swap. If you are planning on doing video editing or 3D stuff on linux then you can have a swap partition. |
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hey kaka i think u should allot more 4 vista definitely else u might run out of virtual memory if u run graphics applications...n i more question why use ubuntu when there r better distros available? n ash as far as my knowledge goes there is nothing of swap 4 windows.....windows uses its c drive 4 virtual memory n u can actually increase/decrease it..cntct me if u wanna know more
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You dont need to Q why we use Ubuntu, its a personal choice since linuX is completely customizable. I use DSL(damn small linux) on my Extensa 500 ACER laptop (Prehistorically '98).
And yea its known Windooz does not use swap. anyway, wanted to add, anyone tihnking of buying HP. DONT, you will regret it bad, take it from a first hand sufferer of HP. My wireless died away ...i mean not died, but win/linux cannot detect the hardware anymore. I am still looking for a sol actively, If I get a temp fix, im gonna sell this $hit off. |
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*bump*
Its now my turn to join the party 5GB: Windows 0.7GB: Swap (i need it.. the 384 MB ram isnt enough. I just pointed a page file to be at that particular partition instead of C drive) 5 GB: Data 5 GB: Programs 0.3 GB: temp 4 GB: Misc I know, kinda silly to partition it even though the space was not much Code:
GB Content
10 Contains the Windows XP system files, MS Office, laptop drivers
and security programs
0.8 Swap partition for Windows
12 Reserved for the Linux OS
0.8 Swap partition for Linux
30 Partition for installed software
55 Partition for data files
10 Partition for miscellaneous uses
1 Temporary partition for TEMP and IE
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Thanks
I just downloaded SP3 RC2 Refresh. Contemplating whether to install it now or wait till end of this month *sigh*
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Nice one!! Oh, you should know this. I think by Windows swap you mean a pagefile partition for temporary usage of HD as a RAM. But this actually possibly can slow your windows down. The page file is used as RAM for big tasks. This means your hard drive has to access the partition and the normal disk space for windows use AND another drive for your programs for example photoshop on drive G: Extra work. So using the main windows drive as a pagefile partition is fine. I am really not sure, search around for more on partition stuff for a lightning fast PC! The linux partition needs a primary partition, not an extended/logical. The 12GB u have created should be primary (If its not, then redo). In short Create two main primary partitions and the rest unallocated can be turned into logical free space for all other needs. As for linux distribution use this quiz: zegenie Studios Linux Distribution Chooser It depends on your likes and uses and needs, which distro to use. On a personal note, my favorites till now (or what all I have exposed myself to) are: DSL (Only 50MB with a full desktop GUI!!) Puppy (about 300MB? full desktop) Ubuntu (my first one and i liked it) Edubuntu (Educational Ubuntu) Xubuntu (For older PC's) (I was gonna give links to the sites but u can do it urself, too much work lol) < |