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I've had some trouble using Mandrake 7.0
Complete on my 166Mhz Pentium PC clone that is strictly a home use
computer. I have successfully installed linux, but have been unable to get
the use of all my hard drive space because I don't understand how to access the
other hard drive, nor do I understand file structures very well.
I have a 1.5G hard drive that is the master, and to
accomodate Linux and further windows expansion, I purchased and installed a 15G
hard drive as the slave. I currently have about 900M of windows programs
on the master, and less than 100M of windows programs on the slave.
I originally installed Linux after first
partitioning both drives so that each had about 50% of its capacity devoted to
linux, and 50% to windows. I installed linux and specified the mount point
for hda3 as "/" and the mount point for hdb3 as "/usr". I chose "/usr"
because the documentation stated, "this was the big one." Now I'm thinking
that might be "the big one" in an office or workplace environment, but not for
my case because I'm the only user on my computer. Anyway, things were
going along smoothly until I tried to install StarOffice. I ran out of
space. I didn't know how to specify that StarOffice should be installed on
hdb, and I wasn't sure with my chosen mount point for hdb, "/usr", how
this would affect the installation of StarOffice on that drive.
Following this, I removed Linux and repartitioned
the hard drives, putting one big Linux partition on hdb. During the
installation process I got a message that the partition was beyond sector 1064
and therefore /boot was going to be in the wrong place, and therefore I needed
to specify a boot sector so that /boot could reside in some sector below 1064
where it apparently belongs.
So, how can I add linux to my system and have
plenty of drive space for additional linux and windows
applications?
Thanks, and keep it simple for me please. I'm
easily overwhelmed with this stuff...
Jon |
