[sclug] Reply to Partition post installation

Neil Haughton n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com
Sat Oct 25 09:05:33 UTC 2003


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>You should be able to install Mandrake 9 in another partition(s) (the installer will allow you to create this if there is free space), and the bootloader will pick up that you have SUSE alongside and give you the option of selecting either when you boot up.
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Neil Haughton

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>   1. Partition post installation (Bernd Becker)
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> [sclug] Partition post installation
> From:
> Bernd Becker <bernd.becker at metoffice.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:19:08 +0000
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> sclug <sclug at sclug.org.uk>, linux-uk-help <linux-uk-help at mailbase.ac.uk>
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>Hello!
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>I have SUSE8.1 installed but am not happy about mozilla not comming with
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>mozilla mail per default, no fortran compiler, no nvidia harware
>accelaration,
>and no means to hook up a mail tool to read from fetchmail to
>/var/mail/$user .
>Used to work fine under redhat 5.2 in the 486.
>Now I found Mandrake 9.
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>How can I install that on my box in parallel? without destroying Suse?
>Will Mandrake
>work better?
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>the 80 gigs harddrive is split half and half to XP and suse8.1 in one
>single partion each..
>(apart form  /boot and swap space)
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>Thanks, Bernd.
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