Gettin Red Hat 8 tomorrow.

[Doogee]

As the topic reads im getting red hat 8 tomorrow, im going to back up my important stuff, my music and some apps and completly redo the hard drive, im going to to the most minimal install of windows first (any suggestions on partition sizes) and a huge chunk of hard drive for Red Hat 8.
Which partitions should i make seperate? ie should /home, /usr etc be on different partitions and will red hat set it up for me, cos as void main knows im not to great at setting that STUFF UP. (excuse the pun)

So i need partition sizes etc, and dont say windows: 0mb cos i need it on there for some things, even though i dont boot to it.
Will i need a /boot partition? if yes how big?
LiLo or Grub, i am more confortable with lilo but some people say grub is better.
these are my questions thanks in advance for answering them.

[voidmain]

I've mentioned my preferences for a desktop setup several times. And other people have many of their own inputs so if you search around the *NIX forum you should find plenty of examples. But I'll go quickly over my preferences again:

SWAP: depends on how much RAM you have. I would suggest 512MB for a swap partition if you have 256MB-512MB of RAM. With 128MB I would use 256MB or 384MB for a swap partition

/boot: ~50MB ext3

/: ext3 minimum of 5GB and 10GB if you want to start getting serious. You can leave the rest for Windows. In fact if your Windows is FAT32 you can use the Windows space in Linux if you need to.

So for desktop machines I use a total of 3 partitions. I don't like to break it out into /usr, /home, /var, etc because you will be running out of room somewhere and wish you had partitioned differently later down the road.

I always use the "Manually partition with Disk Druid" at this screen:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartsetup.html

[ November 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

k sweet, so the /boot wil solve any future bootloader issues or whatever?

[voidmain]

Well, it's better to keep your kernels and boot loader code in their own little partition. It's not necessary since the newer boot loaders no longer have the 1024 cylinder limitation but you might end up installing another distro on another partition, after which you might want to wipe out what will be your current RedHat installation, but you can keep the boot loader in tact by having it in it's own partition.