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?

 

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

 

1000mb = 1gig ?

 

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.

 

computer storage is weird



1024 MB = 1 GB (gig)

 

Tell me how you like Linux when you get it set up.

 

Red Hat 8.0 really has come a long way as a Desktop App.

 

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.

 

Yea Mandrake certainly has some short comings, but for a first install it is nice. I like Debian because they have a RSIC version as well

 

Yeah, when I finally set up Linux, I'm going with Debian. I know a couple of Debian fanatics who sold me on the whole apt-get system.