Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
with CLI only? Less than a gig of data will be installed. Femme Wally wrote: > The Win2k defrag isn't terribly helpful - in spite of having 2gigs free, I > can only get at about 1gig. How much disk does it need for a lightweight > install? I'm planning to install it on my laptop for now (when I

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:08 am, you wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > You should have downloaded the 'iso' images ... > > > > Once you have your discs burned insert CD#1 and configure your BIOS > > to > > boot > > > from CD. Everything is

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread jbarron201
[newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice > >The Win2k defrag isn't terribly helpful - in spite of having 2gigs free, I > >can only get at about 1gig. How much disk does it need for a lightweight > >install? > > Yes, that's a BIG problem with partitioning, it doe

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread Derek Jennings
> > The Win2k defrag isn't terribly helpful - in spite of having 2gigs free, I > can only get at about 1gig. How much disk does it need for a lightweight > install? Well if you do not need any of the graphical apps you can certainly fit a fair bit onto 1G. If during the package selection you ju

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread John Lynch
>The Win2k defrag isn't terribly helpful - in spite of having 2gigs free, I >can only get at about 1gig. How much disk does it need for a lightweight >install? Yes, that's a BIG problem with partitioning, it doesn't do it. I had 1 gig free on my old computer, and the bloody thing let me make a

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-23 Thread Wally
- Original Message - From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You should have downloaded the 'iso' images ... > Once you have your discs burned insert CD#1 and configure your BIOS to boot > from CD. Everything is then automatic and you will be guided through the > install. Before y

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-17 Thread Derek Jennings
You should have downloaded the 'iso' images which can then be burned directly onto Cd's which will automatically be bootable. here is a list of FTP servers you can get the iso images from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftptmp/1016406720.d2f1033d19306e7e8903fa1e3eaee8a0.php#iso Here are instruc