Hi again! Does anyone know how one can un-install linux from d drive without losing c drive. I'm trying to get this machine to quit freezing up. Did not have this problem until I installed linux. This is one big mess. Of course, if I have to re format c drive I do know how(necessary to use windows!). Also, this I do not know. How do I remove the partitions from d drive--in case my new installion of Linux actually installs right. Oops I have a "normal" setup with normal partitions at the moment with linux-mandrake 7.2. Am downloading 8.0 and want the version with the developer tools. And from the last time I tried to re-install I found out the original installion made the partitions to small for the mode with the developer tools?? Do I make any sense?

I did not post this in the right spot this should be in the same spot as Really really dumb that's me. This is just an extension of the same topic.

fdisk, all of it can be done. just use fdisk to wipe out your drive D and don't touch drive C.

Thank-you gosh I'm having so much fun NOT! Ok one more same topic here! I am downloading at the linux-mandrake site. My gosh how many folders do I need! I got both folders(around a gb) from the image names and then there was this one that came first. Not sure how many gb were there, but there were lots of folders and I started with the mandrake8.0. Am I downloading the same thing twice. Oh as is so obvious, I have never downloaded anything from an ftp before.
Thanks again. Liz

Hey, Liz. It sounds like you're downloading all the files that make up mandrake. Do what abyss said in your other thread when asked if you had a cd burner and you answered yes. Just download the ISO image. It's just one big 640Megs+ file. Then just burn it onto a cd. Just make sure that you don't burn it as one big file. It needs to be unpacked by your cd burner software so that the original file structure is restored. The file you're looking for is ' Mandrake80-inst.iso '. GO here and then look for this heading Linux-mandrake 8.0 ISO images mirrors for i586 and higher on the page and just select where you want to download from.

[Edited by linuxcool on 06-06-2001 at 08:54 PM]

Good catch, linuxcool. I hadn't explained clearly what I meant by burning the one big ISO file to the cd.

I went back and edited the post so as not to confuse people.

To those who have not burned an ISO image and are using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator (probably the most popular on the Windows side), under File there is an option "Create CD from Image". This is what you want to use.

right notlinus...

I DL Linux Mandrake 7.1, from back in the day, and recently Linux Mandrake 8.0. There are 2 ISO files for EACH version. Each one is created with Easy CD Creator using the "Create CD from Image" option.

8.0 is great. The OS itself rocks. Sendmail is funny, though, and I have been having trouble configuring. Anyone know much about it?

Hi I found all those files! I have downloaded the 8.0 with the ext.iso image also. what is that? I also downloaded above this. I went into Pennslyvania and downloaded all of these seperate files! Do you suppose I have the right one yet? Do I need to burn both of the iso images? the: Mandrake 80-ext.iso and the Mandrake 80 inst.iso? I suppose the ones at the top should just be deleted. Ok here I already look like an idiot...so here is a better laugh..I have almost 4 gb of linux-mandrake 8 files stored now! Never have enough linux? Thank you all so much really. Ok got to stop this before I pee myself laughing!

Ok did try several times to use fdisk--heck i even found it! But couldnt' get it to work. Thought ok can not use this machine with all these freeze-up so will just reload this 7.2. Got in there and told it to do it all. Of course, told me I didn't have enough room in the current partitions. But, Alas, I saw this bottom option drake tool or something. Chose it and it has place for changing sizes of partition. Well dunder bunny here had no clue. So, I set it to auto. Well, still wasn't big enough so I started experimenting. Chose auto again and checked out hdc1 to see how big it was? wrote it down and proceded to see how big they all were and what there names were. Deleted them all hehe. Reset them and in it went. Ok still got freeze up. I see a place for upgrades. I go to it click on upgrades and my machine freezes solid. Geeze I'm wondering if there is a patch for this one--like does the updater need a patch. Gosh Isn't this pathetic?

Hope you don't get the chair wet....

You need the Mandrake80-ins.iso file and the Mandrake80-ext.iso file (or some rendition thereof) That is the 2 CDs once you burn them in Easy CD creator.

Thank-you Thank-you got them burned! Hey on the fdisk I kept trying to tell it to do D drive and it kept telling me that was not supported. Does it make a difference that I have 2 seperate hard drives? And And if I ever figure out what I'm doing...I'm changing my id asap! hehe Thanks all here goes nothing!

I think elizabetheanera is a great name.

Anyway, fdisk looks at one physical disk at a time. So, if you are looking at hard disk 0 and trying to talk about D, you need to switch to hard disk 1, where you have D defined.

Really depends on what you want to do. If you are scrubbing D to make Linux partitions (boot, Linux, and Swap), then you need to change disks in fdisk. If you are partitioning C to make a new logical partition on the first drive, stay where you are and tell it to partition C (but you may end up erasing C...