On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Sukrit D wrote: > hi guys, > > i need some help. i have a machine with mandrake 8.2 and win Me > installed. theres abt 8 GB left of my 40 Gig HDD. i want to install > debian potato in that space. how do i go about installing it?
The usual way: take backups, insert cd in drive and boot off it :) > can i share the /home and the swap with mandrake? Swap sure, better keep the /home seperate. For one thing the group name is going to be different for mandrake and debian. > i have never installed > debian. is it very different from mandrake? what's the size of > partitions i have to make? i just want to install it to try it out. Debian is supposed to be installable even by a chicken, you just have to keep pecking at the <enter> key. (check out the installation instructions on debian.org) Throw a gig at debian / and say a gig for /home. Please spend some time reading the docs at debian.org especially the installation instructions. > can i squeeze suse into these 8 gigs too? i'd really like that. sure, why not ? just make another set of partitions for say / and /home. I have win95, rh 7.1 and woody on one 8 gig hdd. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
