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invert_nexus said:
standard linux folder structure
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hehe i like to see that, imo 1 of linux strengts and weakness is the lack of a standard cross distros
 
Kunax said:
hehe i like to see that, imo 1 of linux strengts and weakness is the lack of a standard cross distros
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It's a weakness really


I spend some time trying to find the damned ports collection on a friends machine. He wasn't running bsd though so there were no ports :(

On the other hand, if all was the same there would be no need for different distro's.
 
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take a prog like Partition Magic (can be acquired through dc++) and make one of your ntfs of fat partitions smaller. On the taken out space (now it belongs to no partition) you can install linux, or if you have any partition that you can sacriface altogether for linux, you'll be able to delete it and overwrite with a linux file system from Mandrake installation screen. duno how it is done in Redhat though.
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you can ger RedHat on that ftp also
when you go to Mandrake folder (under pub/distros) the MDK 10 is in the iso folder
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If I have two drives, a 40GB and a 160GB, do I still need to fiddle with the drive partitioning?
 
Captain_Crunch said:
If I have two drives, a 40GB and a 160GB, do I still need to fiddle with the drive partitioning?
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Yes


Divide up the 40GB, send me the 160GB :p


or use on off the disks for linux
 
btw- take notice that Linux can not write in NTFS partition. it can only read it. but it can read/write/delete in FAT partition
 
Also note that sometimes Linux 'might' complain about the size of the drive if it's in a different format to what it wants. (Although its only as much complaining as Microsofts OS use to do to)
 
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btw- take notice that Linux can not write in NTFS partition. it can only read it. but it can read/write/delete in FAT partition
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Yes it can. NTFS write support is still experimental, though. (I think; did 2.6 change this?)
 
I have 2.6 . if there is such a support then it has to be enabled somewhere deep in the os
 
It's a kernel compilation option: make menuconfig is my preferred form of kernel configuration (well, it was: I use XP), somewhere under filesystem support
 
Mandrake comes with a great disk partitioning wizard known as 'DiskDrake'. If I were you, I'd make two or three linux partitions (ReiserFS) and put mandrake on the biggest one, (which should also be the first linux partition after the windows one...not counting swap.) On the other two, experiment with the different flavours like slackware or Arch.

I have about 4 'experiments' running on my 80gb drive.
 
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