SoloCDM, I also had what seemed to be mysterious trouble using expert mode. One aspect was not mysterious. When it assures you that you have enough space, it isn't counting all applications. It didn't allow me to place StarOffice in my /usr partition and ended up over flowing the / partition. Mandrake has a pretty good install program, but not yet perfect. During a class where I instructed 14 students on installing Mandrake next to Windows, some machines needed their Windows partitions resized and I was able to do that without using Partition Magic or its subset. I just used resize on the partitioning screen and it seemed to defrag and resize the windows partition nicely. Since I have not seen any documentation for this capability, perhaps it isn't completely fool-proof. Craig Van Degrift On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > > I've had nothing but installation hassles since I started using > Mandrake 7.0. My first hassle started when I selected expert mode. > After pain stakingly selecting every item, I select Install, and the > who thing crapped out on me and told me it needed x-amount of space to > install the packages. There was plenty of space for the packages. > > Later I selected the custom mode and had to hand install all the > packages for KDE and Gnome. Not even sendmail was installed. > > How am I going to get this installation working? > > Note: When you reply to this message, please include > the mailing list and my address. > > ************************************************************************* > Signed, > SoloCDM > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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