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Thread ID: 41620 2004-01-16 19:30:00 Which Mandrake 9.2 Linux CDs are REALLY needed? somebody (208) Press F1
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207998 2004-01-17 10:20:00 > i'm a
> little bit reserved about giving my physical address
> out to people I have only met on the internet .

Im am the police.... Somebodies watching you..... ;-)

:D
Chilling_Silently (228)
207999 2004-01-17 19:10:00 oh no... -gets all paranoid- shuts curtains, disconnects phone lines... :D:D

Just another quick question:

This is what I plan to do. The PC I want to install it on is an Athon 1.4 Thunderbird, 256mb DDR 266, 80gb hdd. The hdd is partitioned into 4 equal sized NTFS partitions at the moment. As there is barely anything on the last partition, I thought I'd use PartitionMagic (7.0 - came with a mobo), and chip of 5GB from the last partition. I would then plan to install Linux on that. Would that work, or does linux have to be on a particular part of a HDD?
somebody (208)
208000 2004-01-18 01:37:00 >I am pretty sure I was given the choice of GRUB or LILO when I installed Fedora. I went with GRUB and it works fine.

Fedora has definetely dropped lilo, i had installed fedora on my machine this moringing (again) and there was two options for the boot loader, Grub or nofink!
ilikelinux (1418)
208001 2004-01-18 01:41:00 Linux is pretty flexible re placement on the harddisk. If disk space is tight, 1.5 GB will see a pretty full install. Dolby Digital (160)
208002 2004-01-18 02:30:00 Thanks DolbyDigital. HDD space isn't too much of an issue - only using about 1.5gb of the 20gb partition. somebody (208)
208003 2004-01-18 03:03:00 You should just be able to clear of anything you dont want and then tell Mandrake to Format it as Ext3, re-partitioning shouldnt be neccesary :-) Chilling_Silently (228)
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