Just my opinions, and I bees a newbie too. first. if you are going to dual boot (I recomend it since that way you can still use winders to connect to this list and get help after you botch something else up) first is to run scandisk in winders or from a dos prompt. then defrag. This assumes you are not installing a new hard drive just for mandrake, and already have winders since you sent this from outlook. figure you want 5 gigs harddrive space if you have the powerpack and are going to try all the bells and whistles. (well,,, install them anyway I don't think you will get around to playing with them all.) if you have a non-ide cdrom, write back and find out about "alternate boot.img" set your bios to NON-PLUG and PRAY aware OS (this will only cause the bios to scan and initialize the PCI and PLUG AND PRAY devices in your computer. Don't bother with the lin4win that will autostart if you try to read the CD from winders, give linux it's own space and filesystem. boot from the cd and read the directions. I like the "expert" (as opposed to "recomended") and "developer" instead of "server" or "desktop". I also like to chose every damn thing on the disks, and let it all fill the hard drive UP. (everyone here that really knows will prolby flame me for that, since some programs can conflict, but for the most part, the installer program will not install conflicting programs. I also turn off as many services as I think I possibly can as soon as I reboot. what a good question tho... On Friday 27 July 2001 18:39, Kaldren wrote: > Well, I'm about to install LM 8.0 and end a life shackled to M$. > Any suggestions or helpful sanity-saving proceedures?
