HD Install :: using dsl over suse



fixed the grub boot issue with fixmbr, thanx for the advice milkshaw ill remake the partition, i have 37.6 spare, what sizes would u recomend for the swap, dsl ext2 and ext3 for reiser.

what is reiser ???
reiserfs is another filesystem, which has been coming into more common use over the last few years.  On my system I have DSL on ext2, and /home/dsl is on reiserfs.  If you go with multiple partitions, the ext2 partition needs to be large enough only for DSL, but you might want it larger just in case you want to add anything to that partition, such as a backup or mydsl extensions. Basically make it whatever you want, over 50mb.
The size of swap doesn't really matter.  If you have a lot of ram you don't really need it, but it's always best to have it just in case it's needed.  Typically swap partitions are 1-2x the mount of physical ram.  I have a 1024mb swap with 256mb ram...this is huge overkill (256mb swap in DSL would probably have been plenty).  I had planned on adding a lot more ram when i made the partitions, but that never happened.
If you go with a second linux partition for data, that's where most of the space will be needed.  As I said, I used reiserfs for this partition, but it is up to you...ext3 should work fine too.  The reason I tend to stay away from ext2 these days is just because i don't want to have to do maintenance on it.  If you write to it a lot, you may frequently need to fsck it to keep data (particularly large files) from becoming corrupted.
and how do i create this reiserfs?
i made a swap thats over kill but i have the space :P
i made an ext2 of 300 mb for dsl (overkill again but its ok)
and the remaining i made to ext3 for reiserfs

Cheers for all the help on this :) so far i just love dsl apart from the install part it all seems easyer n faster
reiserfs is an alternative to ext3....you've apparently formatted as ext3 already, so that should be fine.

I'm afraid I can't help with the actual installation...I installed a frugal DSL manually using my existing suse system and i'm using suse's grub to boot.  There are scripts in DSL that should do this work for you, though.
ok heres where were at, i installed with frugal grub to hda6 (ext2) directed the grub to the windows hd and i have a dual boot system :D .
now i used fdisk -l to show my partitions n i get cannot open /dev/hda i wanted to find my swap space to guide dsl to use it with the command swapon: /dev/hda?? unless frugal does this automatically on the install?
then finally how do i manage to get the /home/dsl onto the hda7 ext3?
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