Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> >I am a VERY new newbie in Linux. I have installed 7.1 using the windows
> >install successfully, but I feel that it doesn't give Linux "free rein"
> >and thus am going to attempt a complete install on its own partition.
> >
> >When I run the complete instal, what do I have to tell it about the
> >partitions that it will make?
> >
> >I have a 13 GB HD, and am currently running Win98. I would ideally like
> >to have 8GB for windows, and 4GB for Linux (or may be 7 and 6 as I don't
> >use a lot of storage-hungry apps)
>
> First make sure you shrink your windows partition (partition magic, fips,
> whatever you have available). Then you can leave all the difficult work to
> the setup. If you want to live dangerously, put everything in 1
> partition. I would suggest you create at least a separate /home directory
> (1 gb) and a separate /usr directory (4 gb) next to / (root) which can use
> the rest.
> But this is just how I would do it.
>
> Paul
>
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> -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Doesn't the Mandrake install disk allow you to specify the Windows partition
during install, or have I got completely the wrong impression?
