[slackintosh-users] Re: Partitioning for Slackintosh12.0

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The 'ram * 1.5 = swap' rule is IMO very outdated.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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