Linux hard disk partitioning question

[WSW]

I am new to Linux. I plan to install Debian Linux onto my old PIII-450 machine with 128MB RAM. The machine used to run Win98. This old PC has two 3.2 G hard drives. Both drives were re-formatted to get rid of Win98.

Whe I install Linux, can I partition the two hard drives in such a way to make it appears logically as one 6.4 G drive?

Also, I will use this old machine only for Linux learning, i.e. there will be no other OS on this machine. What is the best way to partition my two drives for Linux? How many partitions, what sizes and what types?

[fudtone]

What you are asking to do is called spanning. While it has its uses with Linux it is to your advantage to do the opposite and add additional partitions for swap files ect...

install the Linux on 1 drive and once in let Linux configure the other.

[WSW]

When I install Debian Linux, it will ask me to partition the hard disk using cfdisk. If I install Linux in hda, how should I partition the drive?

I plan to partition the disk as in the following. Is it correct?

hda1: 100MB primary Linux ext3 bootable
hda2: 256MB primary Linux-swap
hda3: 2844MB primary Linux

I will install Linux into hda3.

[fudtone]

That looks fine.

I always like excesive swap so I would go a bit larger on that. Thats just me though.