johnz Posted August 26, 2005 Report Share Posted August 26, 2005 (edited) hi, just a quick question for you! when a computer come out of the factory it has no partitions or operating system. there is a program called fdisk that lets you create partitions and then the operating recognises the HD. on installation some operating systems regonise the HD before they are partitioned, do you know if Mandriva is one of these? all imput is appreciated Edited August 26, 2005 by johnz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 26, 2005 Report Share Posted August 26, 2005 Welcome aboard :) Mandriva will work out of the box with unpartitioned drives. It will either partition it by itself or you can run the partition manager yourself (easy to use tool). If you need help on that, just ask us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted August 26, 2005 Report Share Posted August 26, 2005 Yes. During the early stages of the install, you'll be presented with several options such as to use all free space, letting the OS automatically partition the drive for you, or if you want you can choose Custom to specify the partitions you want and their sizes. See this LE2005 slide show for screen shots of the install process: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...ion+screenshots Depending on the size of your hard drive and whether you might want to multi-boot different OS's, you may want to leave space for other OS installs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnz Posted August 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 thx, for the fast response, i like it may have a few more questions throughout the next couple of days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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