Re: [SLUG] nOOb getting started questions

From: Frank Roberts - SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 13:06:14 EST


On Friday 13 February 2004 12:48 pm, Red Wolfman wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am new to Linux as well as email let alone "mailing list". Please excuse
> any errors in form etc..
>
> I have attempted to install several different distros with different levels
> of success. Mandrake 9.2 appears to install with most things working but
> it messes up my partitions. When I use Partition magic 7 it says i have
> errors , does it want me to allow it to fix?
>
> Are there any distros that do not modify you ext2 partition?
>
> Thankyou for any and all help.
>
When I tried Partition Magic with Mandrake 9.0 it did not work well.

I solved that issue by using expert mode when installing Mandrake.

Maybe that is what you should try.

Frank

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