[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 x Thinkpad 600 (not E)

[Richard]

I think you were unlucky here, although I sympathise.

One caveat is - use the "Expert" install mode, not the Standard mode.
Both modes make automatic choices for you, but only in the expert mode do you get the
chance to see all of what's going on, and change it if you desire.

[Regarding disc size, I'd say you'll be quite comfortable with about
4GB for /   and  4GB for /home.
Of course, it depends on what you want to use the computer for - more
space is always nice! But I use my pc at work with only a 2GB hard disc,
split half and half - and that's perfectly OK for most uses.]

Good luck

Richard







On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Steven Crane wrote:

> ...I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 (not a 600E), and I'm considering turning it into a dual
> boot machine with Mandrake 8.2 and Windows 98 (already installed)...
>
> Based on my recent experience with Mandrake 8.2 and the 600E, the best I can say is
> that it is certainly not the automatic choice. My impression is that it fights you all the
> way to impose its own (incorrect) defaults over any selections you actually make.
>


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