[techtalk] Goodby Windows, hello Linux!

Telsa Gwynne hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Aug 6 16:54:28 EST 2000


On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:35:04AM -0400 or thereabouts, Katie Rauss wrote:
> Yay, a fellow Mandrake user (one of my friends is in love with Debian and 
> abuses Mandrake to no end)!  

Fun fun fun :) 

> The partitioning process in Mandrake (I use 7.0, but I'm assuming 7.1 is the 
> same or better) is simple.  I just reinstalled EVERYTHING after getting a 
> second hard drive...the DrakX graphical installer does it for you, if you 
> like.  It'll recognize both hard drives and the partition attributes 
> (filesystem, size, etc.).  If you want to simply turn one drive over to Linux, 
> click on the "Auto-Allocate" choice in DrakX...it'll set up appropriately sized 
> partitions and format them.  

One caveat: I failed to complete a Mandrake install because it didn't
recognise my mouse. I had several partitions I wanted to retain, and
a couple I wanted to put / and /boot onto. At the partitioning stage 
it tells you "Click on the partition to select" or some such. Naturally,
with no working mouse, this becomes tricky :)

The workaround which I discovered _afterwards_ (of course) is that
there are keybindings for moving around. They weren't in the handbook,
but they are on the web somewhere. I have (again, of course) lost the URL
but I'm sure someone else will know where it is.

The part of the Mandrake install that I saw looked cool. I imagine the
rest is the same.

Telsa





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