Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit while i agree with a lot of what you said regarding windows and hardware issues and the support that is out there, i don't agree with the viable indefinately. this would be perhaps true if you never used it or installed any software on it. my experience with umpteen hundred win machines around here is that after 12 months of operation, you are on borrowed time before weird issues start to crop up. however, if you never install any of MS other software like office, or upgrade IE, and just use software that follows the rules of not F-**ing with the OS then it runs a LOT longer without problems. anyways, i guess my rant is OT. so, i should end my part. moose. On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:00, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the whole disk clean and start over. I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups. . This way you can reinstall windows with minimum pain. All operating systems, but especially windows, experience bit-rot which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use). bit-rot ?? I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend. Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to. Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility. I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount. Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the problem, so it gets blamed on the OS.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...
Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the whole disk clean and start over. Make sure you have an OS, applications and data partition for windows and then the standard linux partitions. This way you can reinstall windows with minimum pain. All operating systems, but especially windows, experience bit-rot which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use). -Original Message- From: Ravi Malghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help... Hello: I am tyring to install Mandrake Linux 8.0 on a laptop which has one 20Gb and windows me installed on it. Do I have to use partition magic and partition the drive first or can the installation process use (say 5Gb) for the linux during the installation process. I am stuck at the place where it is decides about the mopunt point/partition etc? I want to have dual boot with Windows me (15G) and linux (5GB) Could somebody help me or provide me pointers. Thanks Ravi __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the whole disk clean and start over. I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups. . This way you can reinstall windows with minimum pain. All operating systems, but especially windows, experience bit-rot which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use). bit-rot ?? I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend. Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to. Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility. I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount. Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the problem, so it gets blamed on the OS. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -Original Message- From: Ravi Malghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help... Hello: I am tyring to install Mandrake Linux 8.0 on a laptop which has one 20Gb and windows me installed on it. Do I have to use partition magic and partition the drive first or can the installation process use (say 5Gb) for the linux during the installation process. I am stuck at the place where it is decides about the mopunt point/partition etc? I want to have dual boot with Windows me (15G) and linux (5GB) Could somebody help me or provide me pointers. Thanks Ravi
