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Actually, i think the workstation installation does that as well (qipes out
paritions and then creates new ones). I have never used the server nor
workstation installation method but I thought that I read it in the manual
somewhere.
On 14-Jul-99 Civileme wrote:
> OK....
>
> You have selected install. One way to avoid the problem is to choose
> "Workstation" and let the installer worry about the unformatted or
> non-windows
> partitions. The second way is to select CUSTOM and use Disk Druid.
> UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES select SERVER, because this installation wipes your
> disks
> before putting the server together.
>
> Once you are in DD, you will see a screen that identifies current partitions
> on
> both disks. If you want to communicate with windows files later, this is a
> great time to give names like /dos to a windows partition, /dos1 to the next,
> etc.
>
> If you have partitions that you will not otherwise use, delete them all and
> then
> begin to add new partitions.
>
> Here is a sort of minimal set.
>
> /boot of 30 M
> NON=labeled Linux Swap partition of a size equal to twice your memory, but no
> larger than 127M.
> / A root partition to take the rest of the disk.
>
> Disk Druid will line up your partitions so they are on CYLINDER boundaries.
> This means you will often get more Mb than you ask for, but never less. So
> if
> you ask for a 127Mb swap partition, Druid might tell you it is too big
> because
> the boundary falls at 131Mb. You have to tinker with these sizes a little to
> get exactly what you want. If you leave a couple Mb at the end of the disk,
> so
> much the better. There is a transparent way some filesystems can use this to
> substitute for bad blocks.
>
> This is just about what you would get with the WORKSTATION installation.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> When i get th the section ofstallation that requires me to use fdisk or disk
>> druid, i dont know how to use either. i want to install mandrake on my
>> second
>> hard drive, but i am clueless on how to set it up in disk druid. i always
>> get
>> error messages telling me i have to make more partitions before i can
>> continue the installation.
>> thank you in advince.
>>
>> jerrud
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