Re: [newbie] partition woes

2002-01-31 Thread Brian Parish
Hey - I actually know the answer to this one! My fingers have also been burned! Being a good linux installer, you created separate partitions for /, swap and home. That's 3. Windows already had 2, so that makes 5. With windblows, that's 1 too many. Four is as many as anyone could possibly

Re: [newbie] partition woes

2002-01-31 Thread bascule
or simply use logical partitions for linux - it doesn't care! i shuld have counted myself though:-) bascule On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:15 am, you wrote: So, as far as I know, your choices are to install Linux with just / and swap, or on another disk. Brian Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] partition woes

2002-01-31 Thread Randy Kramer
bascule wrote: or simply use logical partitions for linux - it doesn't care! i shuld have counted myself though:-) bascule On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:15 am, you wrote: So, as far as I know, your choices are to install Linux with just / and swap, or on another disk. And, just for the

[newbie] partition woes

2002-01-30 Thread Carl Lafferty
Question about partitioning.. Friend has brought his pc to me a few times to install Linux on it with mandrake 8.1 being the most recent. Now his comp has a 20gig and a 600meg drive. The 20gig is master and is broken up into a 4gig partition and the remaining is a windows data drive. I used