Anne; Never thought you were "Daft", but I didn't know your experience level, so I thought I'd be specific, just to make sure that no important steps were missed.
Lanman On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:57, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 3:03 pm, you wrote: > > Anne; Interesting situation! Your 4Gb HDD is currently holding your > > /home partition? Brave! Very Brave! That hard drive has to be 2 or 3 > > years PAST it's MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure), and it's holding your > > personal data? > > Hey, I'm not entirely daft :-) Most of my data is in fat32 partitions, with > sort of working space plus my linux personal files in /home. I do have some > backup of my linux partitions, though admittedly one is overdue. > > As for MTBFs, I've been amazed at the threads I've seen here - mine are > Fujitsu and Maxtor (the little one's Fujitsu), and ..... I'd better not tempt > fate. > > > > > > I'd like to suggest that you skip the new hard drive idea, unless you > > want a large drive for storage, and stick with the 2 20's. I'd > > reccommend setting up Windows 98 on the first drive, with ML8.2 nestled > > right in beside it. Using 5 Gigs for Win98, and 6 for 8.2, would leave > > you with roughly 8 or 9 Gigs for storage, and if you formatted the last > > partition using FAT32, both O/S's would have unlimited access to it. > > > I'll dig out the invoices tonight and see how old ghd 20Gb disks are. That > should give us a clue as to whether they're reasonably safe to use. > > > When you start the installs, make sure your 4 Gb drive is also > > connected, but change the "Mount Point" to something like "/temp", and > > DO NOT format it. Later, you can drag 'n' drop all relevant files from > > your "/temp/anne" folder to the corresponding folder(s) on your Mandrake > > installs (yes,...both of them). > > > Currently my 20Gb drives are formatted in 4s, for compact storage. Some > partitions are fairly full, but others almost empty. I think some hefty > housekeeping before doing anything is called for. > > > When your 9.0 CD's arrive, <snip> > > I've printed that out and will use it, subject to considerations above. > > Thanks > > Anne > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4
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