banjo Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Sorry if this is a silly question, but the Mandriva site is very vague on how the download of the PowerPack works. How is the download limited, by time or number of downloads? Can I download both the 32 and 64 bit versions. That is what they ship when they sell the DVD's. I am doing this on a computer that is slowly dieing and I need to get something working on it that is stable. Soon. I have downloaded the 2010.2 One CD, but last time I installed using the 2008.1 One CD and it took me a month to get it working having gone through 6 kernels and numerous attempts to get the Nvidia drivers working. I thought that buying a PowerPack might speed things up. Is the "Free" DVD usable in less than a month of messing around? Suggestions, tips, hints, and dopeslaps are all welcome at this point. Thanks, Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Just my $0.02. You do not need the Powerpack. Download the 32 or 64 bit Free or One versions of 2010.2 and you will be fine, nvidia drivers and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted May 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Thanks for the quick reply. I am skittish because the 2008.1 One CD I used last time had a crippled kernel with it that would only recognize 1 Gig of my 2 Gig of RAM. It would also not load a driver for my Nvidia card. It took hours of online research and many kernel downloads just to get the system recognizing my hardware. The rest of it went fairly well. I am currently running the crippled kernel because the other one got corrupted by my failing disk drive. I have been eyeballing the Mageia distro, but I really do need something soon because we use this computer for work, finance, etc. I would like to use the long weekend to get this thing working again. Maybe I will try to partition my new disk for a dual boot and try both. I have never done that before. What is the current wisdom for partitioning a disk? I have a 500 Gig Seagate on its way to me. B) Here is my current setup: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 7.7G 2.2G 5.2G 30% / /dev/sda7 191G 68G 123G 36% /home /dev/sda5 30G 6.5G 22G 24% /usr Swap is 2 Gig on /dev/sda6 Thanks, Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 For a desktop, really only /, /home and swap is required. I would have combined your / and /usr and just had a 20GB / partition. As 6.5 + 2.2GB = 7.7GB, it's well within the 20GB limit of / and you have space for your /tmp files and /var growing. 2GB swap is OK, and allocate the rest to /home. Mine for example: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg-sysroot 20G 6.4G 13G 34% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 1.9G 480K 1.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 1.9G 104K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 228M 34M 183M 16% /boot /dev/mapper/vg-syshome 446G 246G 201G 56% /home disregard the /dev/mapper stuff as I'm using LVM partitions. They could just as well be /dev/sda2 for / and /dev/sda3 for /home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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