Marcia,
try to have at least 64 MB of memory, Windows will appreciate it.
I saw a post of yours asking about an Emachine laptop; i won't say anything
abot that brand, but stay away from CELERON processors; go with an AMD or a
good ol' Pentium. I myself use a Toshiba. They are one of 'THE NAMES' to go for
as far as laptops-- good support, warranties and no problems with Linux.
I've installed Mandrake on numerous laptops, as it's my distro of choice and
find that it installs just as well as on the desktop. If you can get a larger
hard drive now, you won't have to worry about upgrading soon.
You really don't need to use Partition Magic- just install Windows first,then
put the Mandrake installation CD in and do a 'Custom' install.
When you get to the partitioning of the drive you'll find that the whole drive
is one big FAT partition. If you click on it there's an option to resize
and it will also show just exactly how much space Windows is taking up.
After you resize you can either manually create the partitions or click on
'Auto-allocate' and then 'Done'
Hope this helps
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> From some of your responses it sounds like there are more than a few good
> laptops out there for running Linux.
>
> Are 6.0 gigs of harddrive and 32 megs of memory enough for running Linux
> Mandrake and Windows easily? Would I be better off getting at least 64 megs
> of memory and 10 or more gigs of harddrive?
>
> Will Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1 be easier to install and use on a laptop? I am
> looking for a laptop that installs Mandrake without a problem, detects
> everything, and everything else works fine, too. I need a dual boot system
> with Windows, too. Is Partition Magic in 7.1? That worked well for me in 7.0
> on my desktop.
>
> Thank you for your help. Marcia
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