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ok thanks. I already came to the conclusion that a re-install of debian would be the easiest. And letting the installer have the entire disk this time. I was just asking before about resizing stuff, wasn't sure about the hassle-factor of doing it. Since I'm intending to wipe out mandriva's /home anyway, might as well just reinstall debian and let it have the whole disk.

 

I'm looking forward to having a "rolling distro" for the first time.

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all finished with the reinstall. I did everything about the same as before, except this time I let it take the entire disk. It seems to have went through without any issues. This time X worked right away, no need for installing kb & mouse modules. They must have corrected that since the first install.

 

After it was all done, I used apt to install some stuff: firefox (got iceweasel instead), thunderbird (got icedove), and the entire bloated kde, which took forever.

 

But everything is working fine. When I have any post-install questions, I'll start a new "post-install" thread.

 

here's what df shows this time:

 

Filesystem		   1K-blocks	  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1			   264445	155279	 95513  62% /
tmpfs				   258528		 0	258528   0% /lib/init/rw
udev					 10240		68	 10172   1% /dev
tmpfs				   258528		 0	258528   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9			182447916	221208 172958812   1% /home
/dev/hda8			   381138	 10314	351146   3% /tmp
/dev/hda5			  4806904   2215924   2346796  49% /usr
/dev/hda6			  2885780   1013248   1725944  37% /var

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