Okay, I'm about to reinstall my Mandrake system off of my 7.2 cds and I'd like to hear people's recommendations on partition sizes and any specific files I should make sure I have. Just FYI I've got the whole box set with all seven cds. There will be two frequent users of this system and four less common ones. I'll be networking the box to another Mandrake system as well as two Windows comps, setting up ip masquerading and running dns, using it as an smtp server with either exim or sendmail (recommendations, anyone?), digital music production and mixing, learning to program in c and java and hopefully lots of other languages soon, as well as all your basic household functions like gaming, word processing, internet (ppp til October then DSL), cd burning, etc. I've also got Windows 98 running on a seperate hard drive, if it matters to anyone. So, I'll give you my system specs and I'd be really interested in recommendations for which partitions to include and what sizes to make them, as well as what programs I should have on it that I might otherwise not know to include. Another nice thing would be any known issues about hardware optimizations, like why does my NVidia card not handle TuxRacer and why does my sound suck even after patching with the VT82cxxxa download. The last thing for people to keep in mind is that I'm going to want to be doing LOTS of tinkering with this, downloading tons of upgrades and new programs etc, if that's important at all. Okay, here's the specs, and then anyone who's got as much free time as I do can shower me with their infinite wisdom: Intel Pentium III 866MHz 256 MB RAM 20 Gig 7200 speed Hard Drive 8x4x32 HP 9100 series CD-Rom NVidia GeForce2 32MB Graphics Card Abit VH6-II Motherboard with VIA chipset 3Com 3C450 10/100 Ethernet Card (3c59x compatible) Zoom 56K External Modem Alrighty, I'll put down what I was thinking of doing and you can tell me why it's dumb, why it's perfect, or perhaps just tinker with it a little bit: / 250MB /swap 200MB /usr 10 Gig /home 9.55 Gig approximately (whatever's left after the others) Thanks to anyone who actually takes the time to respond to this, Isaac
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