[Wylug-help] mandrake installation problem - please help

[Anne Wilson]

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As a Mandrake user for more than 2 years, this post represents my
personal opinion, based partly on experience and partly on regular
reading of Mandrake lists.
>
> Using PM8.0 I resized the C: to 20Gb only.
> I partitioned the rest with 500Mb for linux, 500Mb for linux swap,
> and left about 140 Gb with no partition (hoping to claim it after
> linux installation)
>
Mixing tools for partition work is not wise.  PM is fine for resizing
your windows partitions.  Let Mandrake do the rest.

<snip>

> QUESTIONS
> 1) what did I do wrong?
> 2) Where can I get a reliable copy of Mandrake CDs?
> 3) Could anybody explain to me the installation process or direct me
> to a website? thank you

IMO 9.2 is the weakest version of Mandrake for some time - it certainly
seems to have had a lot of problems for a lot of people.  9.1 is
rock-solid, but near EOL as far as support from the company is
concerned.  The jury is still out on 10 Official, since it is not yet
publicly available, but my advice would be to wait a week or so when I
would expect that fastdiscs.com will be in a position to offer you
10.0Official.  If you don't want to wait, buy the Community Edition
from fastdiscs, then go to urpmi.org/easyurpmi and set up sources for
10.0Official.  That will update CE to OE.

Resources to help you - the Mandrake mailing lists, newbie and expert,
and the Community TWiki.  My sig will get you to a redirect for the
TWiki.

HTH

Anne
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