Jeff
Did you end up installing in your extended DOS partition?
The Automatic installation actually created 3 partitions, /, /usr, and
/swap. Using Grub a boot partition is not needed.
The custom install would not work becuse of the size of your /
partition. It need to be at least 600MB or larger, and your /usr partition
should be larger.
If you have free space on the drive and are not worried about moving
anything in your current partitions you can use DiskDrak to create
additional partitions.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric MC.D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Install partitions help
> Jeff Malka wrote:
> >
> > I just received my 7.1 CDs and installed Mandrake 7.1 with no apparent
> > problems!
> >
> > However that was no feat because I just used the "recommended" install.
> > That installed everything together and I would prefer to have separate
> > partitions for various mounting points.
> >
> > Prior to goinf the "recommended" install root I tried a custom install
with
> > the following partitions:
> > /boot 10 MB
> > /opt 516 MB
> > /usr 1000 MB
> > /home 1000 MB
> > / 66 MB
> > /var 66 MB
> >
> > but the install told me that did not give it enough space to install all
the
>
> A fully isntall take about 1,3GB.
> If it can help, mine is :
> /boot 30 MB (15 MB =Ok)
> /usr 3 GB (free 44%)
> / 800 MB (free 15%) (/opt included)
> /usr/local 620 MB (free 38%)
> /home 1,6GB (free 58%)
> swap 256MB
> Eric
>
> > packages.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how large I need to make the various partitions to
> > install a standard, normal install (not development, etc.)?
> >
> > Since this is a brand new install, I do not mind re-installing into
separate
> > partitions if I only knew what sizes to make them.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Registered Linux user 183185
>
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