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Calum:
nope you don't need to go online at all, the only thing you need to do is run the mandrake installer from the CD (it's best if you have all 3 installation cds) and remember to select 'advanced' and 'expert' at any point where it tells you to select 'beginner' or 'basic'.

with 20GB, i would suggest installing pretty much everything except the servers, also i would let mandrake partition your free space automatically at first. when you get the choice of a bootloader choose GRUB and install it to the master boot record (MBR) and all should work fine.
only other thing is that it would be best for you if your windows xp partition was fat32. sometimes it will be an ntfs partition and these are fiddly and dangerous to edit, so if you want to open and save files from your windows xp partition, you need to change it to fat32 (or you need to make a separate fat32 partition that both linux and windows xp will be able to use for sharing files on).

good luck!

TheQuirk:
Mandrake 9.1 will be able to partion NTFS provided there is no data at the end of the partion (so you'll have to defrag first).

[ March 06, 2003: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
Mandrake 9.1 will be able to partion NTFS provided there is no data at the end of the partion (so you'll have to defrag first).

[ March 06, 2003: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]
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I thought that only the Xandros installer could resize NTFS partitions.   :confused:   Anyway, back to the original questions. I too would recommend Mandrake but I've heard great reviews about Xandros as well.

BTW, DOSMan I wouldn't list SuSE as a soft-core distro but rather as a medium-core one, according to your classification.  

choasforages:
or build your own linux distro. but that is "hacker" and i don't think you would find it satisfying. go with mandrake it should be simple enough. and for the "from source" distros, you would shityourself if you ever see what a simple -march=i686 can do

choasforages:
btw, ever try a *bsd? they tend to be very solid and work, but alot of games and such are out of the question

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