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Member Forums => iago's forum => Topic started by: rabbit on January 13, 2005, 08:48:06 pm

Title: If I were to...
Post by: rabbit on January 13, 2005, 08:48:06 pm

If I were to mail you [iago] one of my harddrives, could you stick Slackware on it and mail it back?  Last time I tried to install Slack I fragged my drive and killed about 8gb of music, and a LOT of my "stuff."  I can probably pay for shipping, if it's not eleventy billion dollars, that is.

I've also gotten some weird errors about the installer not finding my swap partition after I made the ...swap partition.  Anyways, it just refuses to install -.-

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: iago on January 13, 2005, 11:57:01 pm

Sure, I'll PM you my address.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Newby on January 14, 2005, 11:19:22 am

How hard could it be to install Slackware? :P

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: iago on January 14, 2005, 12:47:03 pm

*shrug* it doesn't matter much to me, installing Slackware is fun :)

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: rabbit on January 15, 2005, 05:36:07 pm

I dunno, but I've tried twice, killed my HD both times, and somehow managed to make Slack not find my partitions.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Quik on January 15, 2005, 05:48:59 pm

Maybe you just suck at everything, including using PartitionMagic? I've installed it successfully twice, once on a seperate computer and once as a dual boot. No problems WHATSOEVER. Kthx, bye.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Mythix on January 15, 2005, 07:35:15 pm

Partitionmagic? fucking nubs CFDISK FOR LIFE

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Warrior on January 15, 2005, 08:06:10 pm

Seriously who uses Partition Magic. CFDisk 4 life. I like to personally start with no partitions made then make my Downloads 10 gb partition , a 2 gb Swap , a 10 gb Linux, and the rest Windows. 22 gb in other stuffs.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Quik on January 15, 2005, 08:47:44 pm

If you're going to do a dual boot, you need PartitionMagic, losers.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Mythix on January 15, 2005, 10:16:28 pm

uh when I dualbooted I never touched it.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: iago on January 16, 2005, 01:37:52 am

I've also never used PartitionMagic to set up a dualboot.  Wtf are you talking about? :P

I used PartitionMagic for the first time a couple days ago because I needed a big FAT32 drive, and Windows sucks at life.  But it's only like a 15 or 30 day trial, then I won't ever use it again :)

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Quik on January 16, 2005, 01:44:13 am

That's the point. I have one 120GB hdd that I want to share between Windows and Linux (Windows is installed on the other 80GB drive, but running out of space) so I made most of it FAT32. Therefore, I need the cracked version of PartitionMagic.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: iago on January 16, 2005, 01:45:34 am

Having a large FAT32 drive has nothing to do with dualbooting!

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Quik on January 16, 2005, 02:06:41 am

It does if you install Linux on it, and want to use it for storage for BOTH operating systems. Without dualbooting, there would be no "both".

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Mythix on January 16, 2005, 10:12:53 am

Bah, Giving Linux that much space isn't necessary! Thats why we use linux, it's free, compact, and will never need a gig of space for installing it. Leave the 120GB HD alone, and go buy a 10GB  and you'd be just as well, you're just wasting space with linux if you give it that much space.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: iago on January 16, 2005, 10:56:20 am

I'm using a total of 7.4gb for Linux, and I have tons of software installed.  I'm also using 9.3gb for Windows, and I don't really have anything installed..

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: rabbit on January 16, 2005, 11:25:12 am

Quote from: Quik on January 16, 2005, 01:44:13 am

That's the point. I have one 120GB hdd that I want to share between Windows and Linux (Windows is installed on the other 80GB drive, but running out of space) so I made most of it FAT32. Therefore, I need the cracked version of PartitionMagic.

I did that.  PM raped 30 gigs of music & files, so it can go burn in hell.  And the first time I used FDisk and CFDisk, but to no avail.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: Quik on January 16, 2005, 02:13:01 pm

That's why it's FAT32 and has both windata and lindata folders.

Title: Re: If I were to...
Post by: rabbit on January 16, 2005, 02:51:13 pm

They were FAT32, bitch.  ggnoregodie~