Since you would not be intrested in the legacy system anymore, then it would be very easy to get rid of it entirely :-) First , when you re boot your puter from the mdk cd, choose the installation (new) menu item :-) Then you will be able to use diskDruid to create partitions, first delete the partition the legacy os was hogging before. Then you should see an empty disk... Now create boot partition , should be around 70-100 megs (i hope i am wrong here...) then create your root partition, about 2 gigs should be enough root = /) then you may create the /home to take the rest of the disk minus your ram*2 space which you will create as swap partition. That should be ok. But the partitioning options do not end here, and there could be at least 5 more variations available.
If you hit difficulty , just fire away, i should be around for a while :-) On Saturday 30 November 2002 13:59, you wrote: > I have the new disks from Brian and can read them. I plan to start trying > to install this afternoon (Saturday) around 3PM. I wonder if anyone is > around this PM to help guide me thru the process. I really do believe I > need help. Here's why: > > My (new) computer: 900 MHz with 256MgRAM and 20 Gig HDD. I have > installed Win XP Home and Office 95. All works fine. I partitioned 4 Gigs > for WinXP and have the remaining 16Gig for Mandrake. > > On my first attempt to install Mandrake, I had a few errors, but was able > to get to near the end of the install process where you select booting by > MBR or ____? (forget the term) for Linux and Windows OSs. I was unable to > get either to accept Linux. > > I have a list of errors if that is useful. > > My options--I really would just like to get Mandrake installed as simply as > possible. Ideally, I would like to have dual boot (Win and Linux) but this > is not absolutely necessary, nor is it necessary to have both OS's boot as > of today. > > For now, I want to keep the install as simple as possible so I have > selected just Office Workstation. > > Options: > > 1. Continue trying to install Mandrake with Win XP. > 2. I do not mind reformating the drive (wiping out WinXP) and just > installing Mandrake for now, if that is adviseable. > > any thoughts much appreciated. > > Barclay > > > > > > ApecTec Inc. > www.apectec.com > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (403) 685 1888 > Fax: (403) 685 1880
