Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Steven
This is just on my install . i just made two swap partitons, and a 3rd as just / it placed everything right as far as i can tell but it's working fine and the total disk spae from the workstation install options was under 500 megs Steven On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, you wrote: > Hello all, > > I think

Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Kuraiken
> > I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: > > 100MB - / > > 800MB - /usr* > > 800MB - /home* > > 100MB - /tmp > > 32MB - swap > > > > Does / partition need more than 100MB? > > It sure looks like it. > > Here's what I ended up with for my normal home installation: > > [r

Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Pankil Richards
Kuraiken wrote: > Hello all, > > I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. No problems for my installation of Mandrake. Went quite smoothly, actually. > (or > it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Nothing wrong with Red Hat either. (Prior to Ma

Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Philp
Kuraiken wrote: > > Hello all, > > I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or > it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) > Here's what happened: > > I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: > 100MB - / > 800MB - /usr* > 800MB - /ho

[newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Kuraiken
Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Here's what happened: I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: 100MB - / 800MB - /usr* 800MB - /home* 100MB - /tmp 32MB - swap the * par