Well, I have to revise the amounts in the partitions. Brett, you were
right, I didn't have enough room in the /usr partition. I forgot that the
bin files went in there. Here is what it looks like now.
1. /boot 20 MB
2. /791 MB
3. /swap 80 MB
4. /home 439 MB
The swap
Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new
CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems
fine. I made partitions like:
1. /swap 80MB
2. /boot 20MB
3. / 800MB
4. /usr 200MB
5. /home 500MB
or roughly that
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new
CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems
fine. I made partitions like:
1. /swap 80MB
I like to put the swap at the end of the drive. It makes sure
Okay, here is my suggestion:
1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm
assuming it is the first one)
2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions.
3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk.
4. Setup your
I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux
to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard
drive.
Ripcrd6 wrote:
I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop
windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux
to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the
original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a
