On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:14, HJ Hornbeck wrote: > > I could not install mandrake 9 with XP. From what I have read I would > > have to have Partition Majic since I have NTFS partition. > > > Not true, actually. My school laptop is running Win2k with an NTFS > partition, and I can still boot to it. Linux can read (but not write!) > those partitions, and Windows usually installs a boot stub in it's > partition. The stub means you can chain boot to it. I'll describe the > process a little better once you get past those other errors.
Yes it will get along with an NTFS partition, but I don't think it will allow you to resize it. > > > I got the following > > Error message: XFree86-4.2.1-3mdk.i586 > > It could be a bad CD. Have you checked the MD5sums for your ISO > images? There is a copy of md5sum for Windows floating around. Bad RAM > is also possible, but it shouldn't be that consistent. Try throwing > memtest86 on the machine for a few hours ( http://memtest86.com/ ). It could also be a bad cd. MDK 9.0 uses 700MB CD's and on cheap media, it will not always burn properly around the outer edges. So it may find that the XFree86 package is corrupted. Jesse
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