Robert, you can find the Mandrake Installation Manual at 
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/80/en/user.html/p327.html.  It will 
answer these and a whole lot more of your questions.

Jim

On Saturday 15 September 2001 04:53, you wrote:
> okay i just got linux mandrake 8.1 beta version and i was wondering if
> anyone knows how much room it will take up on a HD, cuz i only have a 1.2
> GB HD. Also my system is like waaaaay old and i cant seem to find a way to
> set bios to boot from a D drive or anything besides c: or a: so is there a
> way i can make a boot disk in windows before i format?

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