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[Andrew <ald2 AT arrakis.es>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> My partner wants to practice loading a 'regular' linux (I gave him 
> SW3.2 and the book for it) and has a computer with 1.2G drive and 
> Win98 on the first 1G.  He managed to make the 200MB DOS partition 
> boot by making it active, and now wants to change the first (Win98) 
> partition to ext2 to put linux on there.  He also wants to try SuSE, 
> Caldera, and Mandrake (for which we have installation boosk) to see 
> what they look like.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1.  Can you boot hda1 ext2 linux from hda2 loadlin?
> 2.  Will the non-Slackware distributions fit into 1G (minimal 
> installation) and if so, would they fit just as well in 500MB so that 
> he could try two at the same time? 

I have a fairly full Mandrake 9.2 (with gnome,  mozilla, gimp, etc., 
etc.) and / and /usr take up 799MB between them.

Andrew