> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] installation question
>
>
> i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake
> homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with
> Drakx it says:
> Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various
> partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In
> Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If
> you have only a Windows partition it will be
> automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap
> space will be created and formatted.
>
> I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition
> on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing
> says it will resize the partition and create and format
> linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe
> partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even
> with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky.
> and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to
> say how much size each partition gets? how does it work?
Before you do anything, even if people tell you that it won't delete
anything, back up everything you hold dear on that HDD before resizing
anything. (I know I said this before, but it is fairly important :-)
