Mandrake will not install......

[KH85]

i tried to install mandrake today, i set it to use avaliable space on the Windows Partition. And it said that it cannot continue as i have bad sectors on the drive..

So i then did a scan disk with windows (the one where it has to reboot and so on) and nothing was found.... a bit odd.

The only way i can think of getting round it is to create the partitions my self. Can anyone tell me what sizes for the partitions i will be needing (i dont want to run out of space)

Thanks alot

KHGamez

 

[drag]

In mandrake does it have a program like parted, were your trying to resize the windows partition? Or did you mix up the terms partition vs drive?


Well for linux you generally need a minumum of 2 partitions. A root partition and a swap partition. A swap partition is usually around 512 megs or so nowadays, and the old rule is double the amount of ram is what you size the swap, but that was back when 32megs was a lot of RAM.

The root partition is were your going to install your system files. 10gigs is a good round number.

I'd make it 4gigs or so for just the system files, but if your just going to use 1 system partition then that's were your home files end up going, and mostly you end up with more stuff in your home directory nowadays then the system directories.

If you do a "install everything" (system files, extra programs, games, developement utilities, etc etc) your going to end up between 3-4 gigs or so of disk space used.

Lots of times people will end up putting a seperate /home partition for their home files, that's what I do, that way I can move from distro to distro without loosing my settings or downloaded/important files.

It depends on a large part how much disk space you have altogether. If you have a 30gig drive then that's going to be a big difference vs if you have a 250gig drive.

So if you want to make your own partitions, just take something like partition magic (backup important files first!!! these things can and do screw up) and make empty space of about 7-10gigs on your drive and then let the mandrake installer do the rest.

 

[KH85]

Thanks for the info Drag,

Cleared that one up for me i shall be playing with it later on tomorrow again i imagine so lets hope all goes well

Thanks again :beer: