Partitioning and formatting New HDD

[Judy & Lindsay Roberts]

A couple of questions regarding matters I've forgotten over time with regard to partitioning and formatting of a new hard drive.

1) Do I Fdisk before formatting?
    I went to Fdisk and it asked "Because you have a Hard disk bigger than 512mb, do you wish to 'Enable Large Disk Support [Y]' "
    I imagine the answer to that is No, because it went on to explain that systems such as Win95, Win3.1 and DOS would not be able to access the drive.  As I am going to put Linux on the drive, will it matter?   What questions is it likely to ask me after answering this question?

2) Do I need a partition for a swap file in Linux, if I am not putting Windows on the drive?
    If 'Yes', is the Swap drive the first partition or second and how large should it be?    It is a 40gb Drive, but only 256mb RAM.

Some of these matters I have forgotten many years ago and some I have never known.

Linz

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