Going to have to reinstall WinXP

[iago]

I talked about that somewhere else in this thread. 

[deadly7]

Ugh, my brother said he still wants Windows on there. -.-
So would my partitions look like this?

/dev/hda1  5gb (Linux)
/dev/hda2 1gb (swap)
/dev/hda3  4gb (Windows)

Slackware says my hard-drive is 10gb big, Windows reads it as 9gb.

[iago]

Ugh, my brother said he still wants Windows on there. -.-
So would my partitions look like this?

/dev/hda1  5gb (Linux)
/dev/hda2 1gb (swap)
/dev/hda3  4gb (Windows)

Slackware says my hard-drive is 10gb big, Windows reads it as 9gb.

4gb for Windows is painful.  Of course, 9gb for Windows is also painful, so....

Yeah, that'll work.  You can lower swap to 500mb, if you want.. the rule of thumb is 3xRAM

[deadly7]

Eh, going off of that I would need slightly more than a gig of swap.. I'm still trying to debate with my brother that 4gb is ridiculously low for Windows, but hell this computer has a 4gb hard-drive as C:\.. so eh.  His only arguments seem to be "well why do you need slackware?" and "it's always good to have windows, just in case."

[rabbit]

Yes, it's always good to have Windows just in case you want to get some viruses.  Smack him and tell him to sit down.

[iago]

Is this your only computer? Or a spare one?

It's good to have at least one Windows computer in the house, just in case somebody *needs* a program that only runs on Windows.  I even kept Windows on my laptop (until just recently), just in case. 

[deadly7]

Is this your only computer? Or a spare one?

It's good to have at least one Windows computer in the house, just in case somebody *needs* a program that only runs on Windows. I even kept Windows on my laptop (until just recently), just in case.

I have two computers, and a laptop that's my brother's in this house.  This computer that I'm posting on right now is the one with the 4gb as C:\, and all of my music/programs/movies are on this computer because it has a couple 120's and a 50 in here, as well.

So I guess this would be the one Windows computer.  I wasn't going to format this anyways, pfft.  Too much work, and I'd lose X-men Legends II cause I don't think you can WINE the DLL's and whatnot.