On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 > > Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. > > someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I know, > I was once there. > > >I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. > > Count me in there. It is a valuable place to hold all Mandrake related > issues, just kinda rough getting around. > > > My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows > > access. > > If you will be doing a fresh install, don't worry about this one. Lilo > has always provided a Windows entry - IRC even if it finds just a fat32 > partition table *without* M$ installed. > > > Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a > > new thread. > > someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. just > /, /home and one for swap (3 total) I like to set up with / , /home, /usr, swap as a minimum. Most of the time I add /var as well. /usr should be a large partition as well as /home, and / can be about 800mb up to 1gb if you load very many kernels. The reason I do the /usr is because that is where a lot of stuff goes that gets changed in the next upgrade and I have found minimal conflicts when that gets reformatted and /home is saved intact. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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