[slackintosh-users] Re: Partitioning for Slackintosh12.0
- From: Adrian Ulrich <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:18:47 +0200
Hi Aaron,
> What are the minimum and "suggested" sizes for the required 'partition map'
> and
> 'bootstrap map' partitions as mentioned below in the RELEASE NOTES ??
Accept the defaults :-)
> Are either of these two partitions similar to the /boot partition for
> PC's (thus requiring approx 15-20MB for grub/lilo plus various linuz kernels)
> ??
No.
The Partition-Map is.. well .. a partition map.
The boot partition is a small (~ 800Kb) HFS-Formatted partition where
yaboot will install itself. The kernel will *not* be installed inside
this partiton.
Powermacs are OpenFirmware based, so booting is quite different from what a x86
pc is doing.
It works somewhat like this:
-> On Poweron, some magic loads the OpenFirmware
-> The OpenFirmware searches for a blessed partition / directory (OF can read
HFS)
-> Somehow it should find / startup the yaboot bootloader from the boot
partition
-> Yaboot can read ext2/reiserfs+co and will load the real kernel.
> Can probably estimate the "normal linux-partition" based upon Slackware
> SETUP's
> suggestion for /root, or /root plus /home....
Yes. Installing Slackintosh 12.0 requires about the same disk space as
Slackware 12.0 does.
> Does the swap partition follow the same rule-of-thumb of 1.5 X RAM similar to
> Mac OS X ??
> TY for recommendations on this!
The 'ram * 1.5 = swap' rule is IMO very outdated. It is okay for PCs with less
than 512Mb ram.
Today i'd use '1Gb - RAM = SWAP'
Regards,
Adrian
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