Craig Van Degrift wrote:
>
> SoloCDM,
>
> I also had what seemed to be mysterious trouble using expert mode.
>
> One aspect was not mysterious. When it assures you that you have enough space,
> it isn't counting all applications. It didn't allow me to place StarOffice in
> my /usr partition and ended up over flowing the / partition.
>
> Mandrake has a pretty good install program, but not yet perfect. During a
> class where I instructed 14 students on installing Mandrake next to Windows,
> some machines needed their Windows partitions resized and I was able to do that
> without using Partition Magic or its subset. I just used resize on the
> partitioning screen and it seemed to defrag and resize the windows partition
> nicely. Since I have not seen any documentation for this capability, perhaps
> it isn't completely fool-proof.
>
> Craig Van Degrift
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > I've had nothing but installation hassles since I started using
> > Mandrake 7.0. My first hassle started when I selected expert mode.
> > After pain stakingly selecting every item, I select Install, and the
> > who thing crapped out on me and told me it needed x-amount of space to
> > install the packages. There was plenty of space for the packages.
> >
> > Later I selected the custom mode and had to hand install all the
> > packages for KDE and Gnome. Not even sendmail was installed.
> >
> > How am I going to get this installation working?
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Other installations from other
Brands allowed me the right to install the files as long as I didn't
exceed the hard disk size.
Note: When you reply to this message, please include
the mailing list and my email address.
*********************************************************************
Signed,
SoloCDM
Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:
Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
