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Help me! I'm spoiled by Win98 but i want Linux!

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Doogee:
hey exorcist, start a new thread buddy, this ones already got about 3-4 seperate topics in it hehe.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Lennon:

Anyway, to answer your question, i am 90% sure (not 100 cos i'm still newbie) that partitioning will not damage your information BUT YOU MUST Defragment your Hard Drive first. Remember that. I installed Mandrake and made all the partitions on one HD and didn't loose anything at all.
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very good advice, but personally i would say it's no harder to just manually set up your partitions. if you do it manually you can make /home into a seperate partition, and that way you can format your linux partition, and reinstall some other version of linux, and your /home partition will still contain all your files (mp3s, letters, pictures et c).

Lord C:
what a good idea! why didnt i think of it :/

TheQuirk:
Calum: Mandrake automatically makes you two different / and /home partions...

Lennon:
yeah, i Mandy 9.1 made a special /home partition for me too  :D

I will start downloading CD2 now...

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