Craig....My hard drive is always partitioned and ready for the
occasion of installing a new version of Mandrake. Below is the
layout. Sda1 is a 204 meg dos partition that contains msdos
6.22. Sda2 is an extended partition containing the 6 partitions
I use for my Linux Mandrake installations. Sda5-7 contain
Mandrake 7.0 and sda8-10 used to be Mandrake 6.1 before I
deleted it (I was done saving data & whatnot from it to add to
my 7.0 installation). Sda8-10 will contain the next release of
Mandrake when it is released. As I remember my install was an
expert, standard with the default security.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 208813+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 27 1106 8675100 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 27 28 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29 44 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 45 566 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 567 568 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 569 584 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda10 585 1106 4192933+ 83 Linux
Alan
Craig Woods wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Craig....DrakConf is functional on my system. I was running
> > Mandrake 6.1 (the real Mandrake release number of MacMillan's
> > Complete Linux 6.5), but elected to install Mandrake 7.0 on a
> > fresh partition instead of upgrading. That's probably the major
> > difference between our installations.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Craig Woods wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Good question on DrakConf: why does it not work in release 7.0. I
> > > installed the upgrade from Mandrake 6.5 to 7.0. DrakConf is on the
> > > desktop as an icon but has no functionality. Does the upgrade look for a
> > > certain type of mount structure. I have noticed that if you take the new
> > > version's suggested mount points, they are very different from what we,
> > > as those that create a certain "look" to our different mounts, would
> > > setup. It looks like libs are getting lost. And has anyone noticed the
> > > absence of KwikDisk? Yes, I can use some switches with the "df" command
> > > but where has this little GUI guy gone? Seems like some bugs but
> > > otherwise it has a nice feel to it.
> > >
> > > Craig
>
> Alan, thanks for the input. I do, however, have several questions. What kind
> of install of 7.0 did you perform? Was it a custom install, and did you set
> up your mount pts in the disk utility provided during the install? Or did you
> take the recommended install? I have done both to a new partition, as well as
> doing a upgrade from 6.1 (yes this is the Linux version in the MacMillan
> package). When I accepted "recommended" install, the "supermount" utility
> caused some prolems, and when I performed "custom", KDE did not work. These
> were full installs. My upgrade install worked the best. I just did not have
> DrakConf.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
