On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:55:08AM +1000, Mary wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002, Paul Maloney wrote: > > I am very new to linux and have on my computer 2gb of free space. Can > > I put linux on here and how do I do it. As I said i am a virgin when > > it comes to computers. > > Paul, > > Do you currently have Windows on your computer? If so, Mandrake Linux > 8.2, and perhaps others, can shrink the size of the Windows partition > [ .. ]
... if the windows partition is FAT or FAT32. Windows XP uses (or can use) NTFS, so I hope the tools Mary mentions detect this. Anyway, I think 2gb is plenty for starters. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
