[plug] mandrake

[garry]

mary welch wrote:

> well first of all thank you for all your help especially the 
> suggestion of Arie about a learner's installation guide for Linux. if 
> I was not to determent to put mandrake on my machine ,i could easily 
> be put off . i have stopped using alot of microsoft programs including 
> e-mail and firewall. Also I dont use norton(symantec programs either. 
> i use thunderbird and AVG and zone alarm. i have installed these 
> programs on my friends computer too and they love them and the finally 
> move is windows . I now find that my hp psc 2210 is not supported by 
> mandrake according to HP(i spoke to them on live chat). i am 
> downloading at present mandrake official 10.0 not 10.1 (thanks for 
> your help in this). I have no chose but to partition as I want to keep 
> my printer(it is new and very good).my computer is i586 not i486(i did 
> more ground work and found out).my questions are:
> 1: is partitioning done during installation or before.
> 2: how much space is allocated to windows and mandrake as mandrake 
> will be my main operating system(or do you decide this for yourself).
> 3:i live in the great southern near Kojonup anyone live near there.
> 4: i know it is hard to explain to people like me but your help is 
> very much appreciated and we all began at this point where i am.
> as you see I am a newbieeeeeeee.
>
>
1. Partitioning is one of the first things done during the installation..

2. You can choose to let the installer take it all, use the unalocated 
space or decide yourself.

3. I guess Collie [where I am] is close-ish.

4. We are all linux virgins once!

Hope this helps

Garry.