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Simpleton
just about to move to linux on my laptop, ive decided to go with mandrake, i have 10rc1 and im getting mandranke 10 community.
but im just wondering whats the best way to partition my drive, its currentlt in 2 partitions, main one about 9gigs. and 2nd (10gig)for downloads etc,
so is it better to put the linux partition at the end of the drive? im gonna make it about 5gig
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03-08-2004, 12:35 AM
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Just leave 5gigs unallocated, the mandrake installer should take care of the rest.
It would probably be easiest to rezize all of your partitions with partition magic.
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03-08-2004, 12:47 AM
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Simpleton
yeah thats what im gonna do, take 5 gigs from main partition, and put it at the end.
what type of partition should i make it aswell though? make the 1st partition primary, and he rest of the space logical? and fiel partition and linux as logical drives?
or make them all primary?
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03-08-2004, 01:26 AM
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I am not quite sure what logical and primary are, I have an idea but don't really know what they are. :"> Probably should find out before I install Slack, if I ever find it
What I did was just resize my existing windows partitions, and let the linux installer use 'free space'. Mandrake probably has a similar option, but you should probably wait until someone more experienced comes here :">
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03-08-2004, 01:28 AM
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ill at least make the partition, thats the long part, its quick enough to convert from a logical dos drive to a primary partition
edit http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file...ad-CD1.i586.iso
would that be mandrake 10, or is it slightly different since its saying community?
or is that just because its only meant for contributing members
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03-08-2004, 01:46 AM
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I really doubt you have to do all of that. Just resize your existing partitions and leave 5 gigs unallocated. The linux installer will take care of the rest.
Don't make a partition.
If I am wrong about this tell me
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03-08-2004, 02:12 AM
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