-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:36:11 -0700, Nick Andriash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me:
>> Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home >> (so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re-install or >> upgrade without losing your data). I assume that since it is a whole >> disk you probably have plenty of room? Allocate 512MB to swap and >> create one bit ext3 partition for the rest. Mandrake will take care of >> everything else. > >I am soon going to try what Melissa is trying, so please bear with me >for a moment. Are you saying simply to create a 512 MB partition named >/home to store data in, as the 1st step during the installation? The >"one bit ext3 partition for the rest" is a little confusing for me, so >would you mind just going over that for a moment? Howdi Nick (And Melissa willkayakforfood), both from famous encryption lists ;-) I beat you to it by an 8 or 9 months: Linux is fun. What Anne said, was to create a 512 Mb swap partition (I chose 1024 Mb, `cause I have 458 Mb RAM with an aging Pentium II, it doesn`t matter immensely because I doubt I ever use all the swap), create one partition for your personal data: /home and put the rest of Melissa`s old 20 Gb drive in one partition of type ext3. Basically that`s not bad advice at all; for beginners excellent, in fact. But if you look through any Linux archives you`ll get umpteen variations of what is practical in sub-partitioning your various directories below `/`. If you haven`t already read it, you`ll find that all your Linux partitions get mount points below one `root`, no matter if there are virtual drives or hard drives. In fact your old windows partitions will hang on the same `inverted tree`, all in the branch called /mnt. IIRC Melissa uses WINXP, so if you don`t have any FAT or VFAT drives, you may wish to note that from within Linux you can`t write (or at your own risk; don`t!) to NTFS partitions. For that reason you may want to consider creating a smallish VFAT partitions on your system to interchange anything you`d like to take with you from a Linux session to a Windows session. Personally I have a derelict mini-windows `95 partition that I boot from and a couple of gigs in W2K space that I have to go to once a month to do some business with my bank via their win-type software. I have a few times used `explore2fs`, apparently without causing damage to my Linux system, which is a tool with which one can explore a Linux system and copy from it, but a friend of mine had lots of damage on his Mandrake Linux, so best be careful there. YMMV. Oh, and one more thing: if you happen to use Partition Magic to create a Linux drive (not that it`ll do you much good, but a nice way to start, have MD format it properly during install), please be forewarned that some versions of PM note partition table errors after installing a Linux system and PM will offer to correct the errors. Please do **not** take that offer. Let it be an error according to PM. Probably the warning will go away 1 or 2 PM sessions later. You`ll be glad you took the plunge. Ciao, =Dick Gevers= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/unPswC/zk+cxEdMRApNoAJ94EmoR1230P26Pvi/dYo4/0jerjwCgwXOj 4OfkUk8YvgKXdands/FBf2A= =r9Wx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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