   installing mandrake
  currently im downloading the third iso for mandrake 9.1 .. 54%.and what im planning to do is to wipe out my 1.98 gig hd from my 150Mhz laptop and install it there.I never used linux before so this could be quite a challenge for me. Once i get thru the installation im gonna be tweaking quite a bit to make it run stably on my slow comp with merely 40 megs of ram. So, when i install, im expecting that after,,c:\>format c \qi just pluck in the cd and restart the computer then the installation will start.So far so good?any pointers on how i should adjust the distro?any dangerous things to watch out for?[edited by - tyro on August 16, 2003 4:16:59 PM]
  I wouldn''t bother with reformatting your hard drive prior to the installation. Mandrake gives you an option to wipe out your hard drive and use the whole thing during its installation.Also 150 MHz and 40 MB RAM is pretty skimpy. Don''t expect to be able to run  Gnome or KDE with any kind of speed (or maybe even at all). You may be using the command line more than you''d like. ;  im taking that as my learning opportunity;  Make sure you install something like WindowMaker or IceWM. They are decent Window Managers that have a small footprint. Also, one of the first things you might wnat to look into is how to configure which daemons run on startup. By default you will probably have a bunch of stuff running you don''t need. Mandrake may even have Apache running by default, I think it was when I used Mandrake. ;  I tried installing mandrake 8.1 on a 233mhz laptop, it didn''t work so well.  It still felt heavy in the operating system.  Like the person above said, install a light window manager and you should be alright, or just drop the gui all together. ;  Use either fluxbox or gnome, they are a lot faster than kde, enlightenment is also fairly good. ;  Though Gnome may be a tad faster than KDE, it's still not fast enough to run on his comp.I have Mandrake 9.1. It gives  you options of what you want to install. Make sure to exclude all the server related stuff. Also, exclude all the window managers, XFree86 will be enough.   Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?My newly updated site | The Cutter Project | Association of Computing Machinery [edited by - capn_midnight on August 16, 2003 7:30:45 PM];  i decided to just put it as a second os on my p800While doing that, i managed to format the wrong fucking hard drive.Right now im desperately trying to find and use some programs that can recover it ;  and why does the instalation keep saying things like "error installing package grep-2.5 7mdk" it freezes right at the start ;  I just installed Mandrake 9.1 the other day on this computer and I remember getting a couple of errors. I don''t think it was grep, though. Grep is somewhat important/useful. 