00:00.29 | jdevil | ok thanks guys |
00:00.32 | jdevil | the cd is booting now |
00:02.04 | rustyBOFH | hi folks anybody there? |
00:02.40 | skel | ya |
00:03.26 | jdevil | ok whats a bootable flag? |
00:03.34 | jdevil | should i turn that on the ext3 partition? |
00:03.41 | jdevil | well let me back up |
00:03.48 | jdevil | i am in the manual partitioning thing |
00:03.57 | jdevil | thing == software on install disk |
00:03.57 | jdevil | lol |
00:04.22 | jdevil | its not the software i used before it seems easier to use.. but i dont know how to use it yet... |
00:04.37 | jdevil | i just went back |
00:04.40 | jdevil | here is where i am |
00:04.45 | jdevil | looking at my 12 partitions |
00:04.54 | jdevil | 9 is the hfs bootstrap |
00:05.01 | jdevil | 10 is the swap partition of 1200mb |
00:05.12 | Proteque | huge swap |
00:05.15 | jdevil | 11 is the ext3 partition at 10gig |
00:05.34 | jdevil | ... i just followed a tutorial when installing... i dont know why or what swap is.. exactly |
00:06.17 | Proteque | it is virtual memory |
00:06.34 | jdevil | i assumed but its not like virtual memory on windows... |
00:06.39 | jdevil | its not good to use i heard |
00:07.05 | skel | lol 1200mb swap |
00:07.17 | Proteque | well I never use any of my swapspace |
00:07.23 | skel | you'd be fine with 512 |
00:07.24 | Proteque | I only have 256 "just in case" |
00:07.49 | jdevil | ok |
00:08.13 | jdevil | first should i use the auto partitioning software that this cd has |
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00:08.47 | jdevil | second should i delete partitions and if so which and what do i create in their place |
00:10.07 | skel | ok hang on |
00:10.14 | jdevil | lol :) |
00:10.45 | skel | whats it called? |
00:10.48 | skel | damnit |
00:11.02 | jdevil | the partition software? |
00:11.10 | skel | yeah |
00:11.20 | jdevil | or the partitions themselves... ok h/o i'll see if i can find it.. |
00:11.31 | skel | oh.. duh |
00:11.35 | jdevil | no name |
00:11.36 | jdevil | ... |
00:11.37 | skel | I'm on my intel box |
00:11.39 | skel | hang on |
00:11.45 | jdevil | its graphical... |
00:11.51 | jdevil | oh ok |
00:12.12 | jdevil | thanks :) |
00:12.28 | skel | the partition program is? |
00:12.38 | skel | hmm.. maybe its qtparted |
00:13.06 | skel | well darnit if I don't know which program it uses.. |
00:13.10 | jdevil | its blue and grey... it could be just part of this installer |
00:13.20 | jdevil | it doesnt seem to be any different than the rest of the installer... |
00:13.32 | jdevil | well its ok |
00:13.32 | skel | the one I used with the beta installer was just an ncurses based menu and then ran macfdisk |
00:13.38 | jdevil | i can just guesstimate :) |
00:14.52 | jdevil | if it doesnt work... i dunno i guess just use mac os x for a while lol |
00:14.58 | Slugger | jdevil : did that once, with mixed results |
00:15.10 | jdevil | umm... well now somehow |
00:15.14 | jdevil | i got mac fdisk open |
00:15.22 | jdevil | i just hit back and it brought me to a new menu |
00:15.39 | jdevil | and it then asked me if i wanted to view all partitions i said ok |
00:15.41 | jdevil | then it came up |
00:15.46 | jdevil | lol |
00:16.07 | skel | ok |
00:17.05 | jdevil | so then |
00:17.09 | jdevil | should i do what i did before? |
00:17.19 | skel | you can use the instructions from brandens howto to get started with macfdisk |
00:17.21 | skel | yeah |
00:17.22 | jdevil | ok :) |
00:17.56 | jdevil | what amount of swap space? |
00:17.58 | jdevil | 256mb? |
00:18.06 | skel | you can do i to initialize the partition map then b to create a new bootstrap |
00:18.12 | skel | how much ram do you have? |
00:18.20 | jdevil | 256 |
00:18.21 | jdevil | ram |
00:18.36 | skel | then i'd to like 396 - 512 of swap |
00:18.42 | jdevil | ok 512 |
00:19.11 | Lobezno | 512 is too much with 386 |
00:19.20 | Lobezno | 384 |
00:19.22 | Lobezno | :p |
00:19.23 | jdevil | eh... |
00:19.33 | jdevil | its fine 512 is better |
00:19.38 | jdevil | more is better than to little |
00:19.49 | Lobezno | 384 is enought |
00:19.51 | skel | Lobezno: rule of thumb is generally have swap x2 the amount of ram |
00:19.57 | jdevil | ok |
00:20.16 | Lobezno | skel, i am sure he 'll never use 384 mb of swap :) |
00:20.44 | skel | ya never know =P |
00:20.58 | skel | when you start doing things like mol |
00:21.04 | Lobezno | skel, are you using alsa? |
00:21.09 | skel | yeah |
00:21.19 | Lobezno | with an ibook? |
00:21.26 | Lobezno | I have to make /etc/init.d/alsa restart |