When I first installed Mandrake 7.2, I did it on a
partition on a windows 98 box. It had a 6.4GB HD, but
I installed it on one of the 1.99 GB partition and I
had to shove all I could into that space. It was being
installed on a box running with a 233MHZ, and 64 MB
RAM. This istallation took hours to do. I do not
even know how long it really took, because after a few
hours I went to bed, and when I woke in the morning I
then changed CD's, then waited some more. Some of
these installs can take a long time to complete.
mike
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dennisk@sahuaro.f2s.com wrote:
>
> My boss picked up a new Sony Vaio at the Sony Store
> in Chicago this week so I
> decided to do a Mandrake install a la InstallFest to
> see how long it might
> take.
>
> Since the computer has one 6Gb partition with ME
> installed Mandrake would have
> to shrink that to make room for Linux. Of course,
> you can install Mandrake in
> a folder on the Windows partition but who would want
> to do that?
>
> So, first thing I needed to defrag Windows. Two
> hours and several cross-linked
> files later I was able, finally, to boot the
> Mandrake CD. Even though there
> was 2.78Gb free space on the C: drive Mandrake could
> only recover 700Mb!
>
> The moral - If this is a typical install we'll run
> out of time and better have
> lots of Partition Magic CDs handy!
>
> Dennis Kibbe
>
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