Installing mandrake(finally)
10-03-2002, 01:03 AM
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I tryed to partition the hard drive damn partition magic wouldnt do it. Maybe its becuase i have no clue wht im doing in that program. It says i cant be in windows while its making changes( I understand that part) how do i run partition magic in dos? and how many MB is 10 Gigs?
10-03-2002, 08:11 AM
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it's been a while since I used partition magic, but I think you make whatever changes and when you reboot, it makes the new partitions... not sure though...
easiest thing to do is spring for a new hard drive... then you don't have to worry anout screwing stuff up
easiest thing to do is spring for a new hard drive... then you don't have to worry anout screwing stuff up
10-03-2002, 08:58 AM
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As I recall from partition magic... yes it's ben a long time, I think you make the changes, then it reboots to a dos screen and actually does the partioning, if that isn't the case then there is probably an icon in the program group to boot to the disk partitioner.
10-03-2002, 06:01 PM
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forget mandrake, download debian. It's alot better than Mandrake (granted, mandrake is user-friendly, and easy to install) but when you want to apt-get and download new stuff, Mandrake downloads everything at once, and not the certain file you need.
