A warm greetings to everyone,

This is my first post so let me introduce myself first... the name's really Bryan but I've been bxb32001 online (and in all forums I participate in) for quite a while so that is the name I chose here. Though I started my Linux experience with Red Hat 7.2 two years ago, after a year of using it I switched back to Win2K for work reasons... I recently downloaded and burned a Knoppix CD, used it and loved it so now I'm hooked again... now I want to install it onto my hard drive!

I usually just choose the defaults provided in the RH installation and this worked fine for me... this time around I am mulling a partitioning scheme more appropriate for my use... I am basically asking that someone look over my partitioning plans and tell me what they think.

I have 2 disks, the first one a 80 GB 7,200 rpm Seagate, the second a 60 gb 5,400(?) rpm Seagate. Here's how I planned my partitioning scheme.

80 GB disk
- 18 GB, primary, NTFS - for the Win2K system
- 18 GB, primary , NTFS - for related Win2K junk and swap
- rest of space, /home, ext3 (about 42 GB)
- 1024 mb swap for linux.. (I have 512MB RAM)

60 GB
- 24 GB, for the / (or /root?) partition
- 18 GB, primary, FAT32 - so I can trasfer files between systems
- 18 GB, primary, NTFS - for my Virtal CD files (I'm a gamer of sorts!)

How does this look? right now I have one 18 GB NTFS parition on my 80 GB drive (newly installed Win2K)... I plan to add all the other partitions (NTFS and FAT32, later).

Any advice / input is greatly appreciated...

- Bryan