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Sun Java Workstation W1100z and W2100z Getting Started Guide
• October
2004
Guidelines for Partitioning
contains recommended guidelines for partitioning your disk:
Resizing Your Partition
The Configurator presents the following options when resizing your partition:
■
Accept proposal as-is
■
Base partition setup on this proposal
■
Create custom partition setup
Perform the following steps to resize a partition:
1. From the Installation Settings dialog, select Partitioning, select Base partition
setup on this proposal option, then click on Next.
2. Highlight the partition that you want to resize, then click on Resize.
3. Use the slider to set how much space you want to allocate to your Windows
partition and your Linux partition, then click OK.
Note –
The minimum allocation of space for Linux is 3024 MB.
4. Click on Next to save the partition table and return to the Installation Settings
screen.
TABLE
2-1
Partitioning Guidelines
Partition
Size
Type
Notes
/
5 Gbyte (3 Gb1 yte
minimum)
Primary
Install the entire Java Desktop
System operating system onto a
single partition. This method
provides sufficient space for you
to install a later release of the Java
Desktop System without the need
to repartition the disk.
swap
Double the size of the
RAM (128 MB minimum)
Swap
You can increase or reduce the
size of the swap partition as
necessary.