On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:14 -0400, Ron Youvan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have been having a fit installing Mandrake 10.1 (CD's from down loaded ISO images)
> for some time. Won't fit on a 2 gig drive, won't boot off of a SCSI. (8.4 gig drive)
> So I just installed it on a HP "netserver E60" with a 20 gig drive and 64 megs of RAM.
> It said: you have limited resources (the first time I have seen this related to LINUX)
> so it only installed the X system and a virtual console, not gnome or it's programs.
> It never asked for the second (or third) disk.
Since you are setting this up for a "friend" why not install Debian?
Debian will definitely fit on a 2 gig HDD and it is the easiest distro
extant to upgrade, via apt-get tools. Your friend won't have to do
anything, after you do the initial install. Just set up a cron job to
automagically update everything for him/her.
<snip>
> (I have winders 2000 on my desk at work and it is so slow and I have to work around all
> of the M$ programming errors that my week is tiring because of it.)
Waaa. Set yourself up a linux workstation, unless you are asking for
pity.
HTH,
The Logan
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