I plan to install Peppermint 6 on a new 250gb harddrive. The tutorial says to partition, if going to, depending on amount of ram which would result with a partition of about 3.9 gb. Is that correct? That seems a little small to me, I was thinking more around 40-50gb. I have about 3.8gb of ram.
why such a small partition on peppermint 6 installation?
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Someone Somewhere
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That partition is for swap (virtual RAM/pagefile). You'd generally create it first, then use the rest of the drive for your main OS partition.
Which tutorial are you working off?
Which tutorial are you working off?
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on a new or its own drive should not need to partition it at all seems from here the whole os only takes 3 or 4 gb of space ??
http://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/
what I do see is for a swap as said above but its not like your going to run 512mb of memory ?? I only got one program that needs swap to run things that exceed my 16gb ? [y-cruncher ] it runs in memory and I can set a run that exceeds my useable amount ..
I just don't get why you would need it in todays computers I mean even just 8gb is hard to use up at one time ??
http://peppermintos.com/guide/downloading/
what I do see is for a swap as said above but its not like your going to run 512mb of memory ?? I only got one program that needs swap to run things that exceed my 16gb ? [y-cruncher ] it runs in memory and I can set a run that exceeds my useable amount ..
I just don't get why you would need it in todays computers I mean even just 8gb is hard to use up at one time ??
Hi Someone, I can't find the tutorial now but I think it was titled Fresh install of Linux Mint. At any rate, I installed Peppermint 6 on my old hard drive alongside Windows XP and followed the instructions for that, the installer, after partitioning for windows drives, automatically partitioned the remaining for swap and OS partition. Your answer pretty much takes care of the "why" so I'll consider this post as solved. How do I mark it as solved? Thanks Someone Somewhere.
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