On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:57:54 -0400, Windwood wrote:

> How do I partition and format for a Linux only OS(no dual boot) Install?
> Thanx,
> Rick

You can use fdisk.

See the Partition HOWTO for detailed information.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html

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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:57:54 -0400, Windwood wrote:
> How do I partition and format for a Linux only OS(no dual boot) Install?
> Thanx,
> Rick

Pretty much any distro will do that for you. Pop in the disc and follow
the instructions.
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Windwood wrote:

> How do I partition and format for a Linux only OS(no dual boot) Install?
> Thanx,
> Rick

You can download something like knoppix liveCD
boot up on the liveCD and using Qtparted, do all the
work in a neat comfort of a graphical environment.

But also as others have said, installers all come
with software to set up and format partitions.

Windwood wrote:

> How do I partition and format for a Linux only OS(no dual boot)
> Install? Thanx,
> Rick


The answer would depend on how your distribution behaves with respect to
default partitioning, A modern distribution should take an empty disk
(one from which all partitions have been removed) and partition it
according to the partitioning philosophy of the people who wrote the
distribution's installer.

If you are building from scratch, and therefore have to do your own
partitioning, a good starting philosophy would be to make a root
partition (mounted as /) that is large enough to hold your root system
plus ample room for additions plus a swap partition that is twice the
size of your installed memory (to a max swap of 1 gig) plus the
remainder of the disk as a single partition mounted as /home. The
biggest partition is /home because that is the one that will grow the
most as you add users and their preferences, bookmarks, profiles and
work product.

Partitioning philosophy can get arcane and can be ripe ground for
disputation. You actually can put the whole tree into a single
partition and that would probably be the default in a minimal system on
a very small drive (such as the 2 gig drive on which I installed my
first linux system) Having /home in a separate partition allows you to
remove a system and re-install without disturbing the /home tree and
therefor without losing your profiles, preferences, bookmarks and work
product.

If you are using Mandrake, simply remove all partitions then insert your
install disk 1 and accept the default partitioning. Then when you get
to the package selection screen, choose all the workstation options,
chose at least one desktop (KDE or Gnome or both, Mandrake preselects
KDE by default) and choose no server option. That will give you a good
and reasonably complete system with a wealth of applications and, with
KDE, an easy migration from windows without too steep a learning curve.

Clive