On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:06 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:34
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition
>
> > >
> > > No spare computer. The last time I screwed up and had to reinstall it
>
> took
>
> > > 4 days. Mostly fighting those nasty virisus that sneek in while I'm
> > > downloading the norton virus definations. I dont mind reinstalling
>
> windows
>
> > > but the virus definations are tough. Also linux is trashed (due to me)
>
> so
>
> > > there is no problem reinstalling it. I just want to do it right for
>
> once.
>
> > > Regards;
> > > Hoyt
> >
> > Well I can tell you what I have done in the past and I think that you
>
> will
>
> > find it easy. Forget about the expert mode!!! just insert CD1 immediately
> > after defragmenting and do the standard installation and accept the
> > defalt settings after reading through the options, you may gave to select
> > a different mouse type or something simple like that. NOTHING will be
> > permanently written to the hard drive until you finish disk partitioning
>
> so
>
> > don't worry yet. When you get to disk partitioning select custom disk
> > partitioning it should take you to a screen with a graphical
>
> representation
>
> > of your partitions and you should see 1 large partition that is all blue
>
> that
>
> > is labeled windows. Just click on it and some options should appear on
> > the left of the screen, select resize. then just use the GUI to shrink
> > the windows partition as much as you like, about half the original size
> > is probably OK. Next you should see a new graphical representation of
> > your partition table. Half of it will be blue and labled windows and the
> > other half will be a sort of gray color with no label. Click on the gray
> > part
>
> and
>
> > then near the bottom of the screen click on auto allocate. Mandrake will
> > divide the gray part into 3 partitions, root, swap and home next click on
>
> the
>
> > done tab near the bottom of the screen and proceed with the rest of the
> > installation.
> >
> > You can also have a look at the demo at
> > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake9.0/Install/
> > it is for the old 9.0 release but the installation process is still
> > almost
>
> the
>
> > same. I hope that this helps.
> >
> > Marc
> > --
>
> Thanks very much that is what I have been looking for and I will check out
> the reference. My problem is I normally dont take chances and let the
> installer do the job so I dont know what options are avalabile.
>
> Regards;
> Hoyt
I understand your concern but I can assure you that Mandrake has done a
Fantastic job on the installer, infact it is one of the things that makes
mandrake really stand out from the rest of the crowd. If I remember correctly
back about 6 months ago a guy named civileme did most of the coordinating
work with the team that developed the installer for 9.2 and he went to great
efforts to get it right.
Marc
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