also is the 5 gig for linux set up as only a / partiution? or is /home seperate?
my setup at work is i have a 4 gig windows hard drive and a 10 gig Mandrake drive.
the mandrake drive is setup as follows :
hdb1 is / hdb5 is /home hdb7 is /tmp
It sounds like you should do a reinstall and make at least a 4 gig partition for /
and a 1 or more for /home ( though i'd give at least 3 gig if possible ).
reinstall using the diskdrake tool should work.
also you didn't answer if you scandisked ans defragmented your window partition.
Did You?????
also choose to select individual packages and read the descriptions for most of them and choose if you really need it or not. don't pick to install everything and all the window managers and games and such be picky with your choices as you don't really have enough space to go nuts yet.
when you learn how nice mandrake is you will naturally decrease the windows partition to a minimum.
anything else?? ;-)
mike
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ok, my current hard drive is a 20GB hard drive. it was partitioned for me (by my friend who built my computer) into a 5gb and 15gb partition. when i first installed mandrake, it only gave me slightly over 1gb of free space on my 15GB partitoin to install with. after seeing mandrake was working, i exited back to windows, deleted some things off the 15gb partition, then went to re-install linux to give it more space to run (was going to give it a good 4-5GB of space), and that's when the problems started. i really did a number on this one. i gave it more space when it came to the partitioning part, and told it to leave 10GB on the windows partition. now i can't use the "linux" option when i get to the boot choices screen, only "linux-nonfb" works.
so where do i go from here to fix all this and give mandrake a dedicated 5GB to operate out of? thanks.
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