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207012, RE: Linux question
Posted by Horatio, Fri Mar-21-03 07:32 AM
Chewy,
Just curious, why Mandrake 8.1? Mandrake 9 is out and it is a very slick OS. Doubt if you would be able to squeeze it onto the 500 gig. or if you did, you certainly wouldn't have any room left for much software. I'm not really certain about the 500 meg size, but I'm sure Grogan, BobGuy, or MrMan will see this and let you know if that is possible.

When I installed Mandrake 8.2 and then later ver. 9, I gave it about 6 gigs.
The thing I would do is resize your partitions with Partition Magic in order to leave unallocated (unpartitioned) space on the end of your 40 gig. drive if you have the free space available. The Mandrake install will find that unallocated space and give you the option to install to it. It will even auto allocate the amounts for the Linux partitions if you use the 'auto allocate' option.
As you have your data on FAT 32 partitions, you would be able to move it to or view it from your Linux OS.

Try it, you will like it.