Im trying to install it on a pc that has windows already and make it a dual boot but i dont know how to partition it correctly to work right. I've already tried doing it once using the free space on the windows partition but it didnt work when i went to install the packages i had to deselect everything to get it to the proper memory. I have a 30 gig HD and windows is using less than 10gigs. Should i try the custom disk partitioning?

No I would suggest picking up a seperate HD. I have a dual boot with XP/Redhat

Partioning is a major PIA

This is annoying i just made a 14 gig partition for linux and when i went to put in the packages i got the same ****. What the hell is the deal with these packages and the space they take?

Ok ill probably have to reformat my hard drive now becuase i deselected it all and went on so i now have nothing extra installed.

The packages are alot of **** you dont need anyway. Most of them that is.

i didnt do gnome or any of the other things like that. uh oh it got done installing and had some errors.





ok now it wanting me to enter some mount point ****, what the **** is what?

You should get rid of Mandrake because it's a pain the ass, and install debian or red hat, but I perfer debian. Red hat now is so much more like windows than what Linux is suppose to be.

You dumbass.

You need two partitions for linux and one for windows. The two linux partitons are 1) swap partitions which is about 200MB (or whatever size your ram is normally) and 2) the partition where you want the linux OS to go. Your mount point. If your using mandrake (which is the easiest linux to set up ever), it will do it all for you automatically, even with an existing windows partition.

Also, the packages aren't that big, if you installed all of them, it would only be about 3Gig at the most. You probably don't need the server packages, or the gnome package, cos KDE rocks, so your looking at 1Gig all up, even if you do the video and sound editing, c development and games packages.

i keep getting an error saying idconfig failed then it makes me pick the packages again.