partitioning recommendations?

[sledge_hmr]

I have recently purchased a 40Gig hard drive and am planning on setting up a dual boot system between Slackware and Win98. How should I partition my hard drive? Thanks.

[Kadesh]

Linkage (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=search&search_forum=1)

Is this kind of rude? Yes. Has it been answered to death in the past? Yes.

Anyway, gl with Slack. Seems a bit too minimalist for me.

[knowledgepeacewi]

Kadesh is right on both counts but were I you I'd make my Linux Partition at least 2GB but Probably put it around 8Gig or 10 Gig. That leaves a lot of space for windows.
I have a 40gig windows partition and loaded everything I have on it and it isn't even half full.
good luck.

[Bradmont]

Hehe... My win part is ~ 10 gigs, my / part is about 200 MB, my /home ~2 Gig, my /usr ~7 Gig, /var ~300 MB, /tmp ~50 MB, /mp3s 10 GB, and I've still got about 20 Gigs unassigned on my second harddrive ;). This setup works well.