Mark
Most of the Mandrake installation is to your / partition so having 1GB of
free space dosen,t mean that you have that much space available for the
installation.
You are asked how much you want to install because you get a lot of extra
programs with any Linux distro. these programs are installed based on their
priority/use and upon avaiable space (mbs). A functional Mandrake can be
installed in as little as 600mb so really 1GB is not that much extra space.
In 7.1 a normal installation is 1.3GB.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 2:46 PM
Subject: [newbie] Question about some of Mandrake's install prompts
>
> I'm just curious: (fyi, this concerns version 7.0)
>
> How come after Mandrake asks me to select what packages I want installed
it
> tells me it will take, for example, 1128MB to install and I might not get
> all the packages but I can try anyway (when I've got over a gig of free
> space available). Then it goes on to ask me how much of the packages I've
> selected that want installed and it's in terms of megabtyes (which by the
> way is a number like 968 not the 1128)! How in the world would I know how
> many megabytes that I want to install -- I just accepted the default. I
> don't understand why it would ask me how many megabytes of the OS I would
> like to install. I'm thinking in terms of # of packages not megabytes.
>
>
