On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 00:27, Cleve Allison wrote: > Hey, > I've never done this before so any info you can give me is greatly > appreciated. > I want to dual-boot my computer with W2K and Mandrake 9.0 > As I understand it, the easiest way is to install W2K first and then > Mandrake...... > What I am not clear on is how do I partition my drive to allow for this. > I am using a 20gig harddrive. I would like to use 5 gig for my W2K C: drive > and 5 gig for data......then I would like to use the other 10 gig for > Mandrake. > So do I only partition out the first two 5 gig partitions for windows and > then let Linux take it from there on its own to find the other 10 gigs or > what? > > In the past I have simply set up the OS's on separate harddrives but I wanted > to try this. > Thanks in advance, > Cleve
Just partition the drive and install W2k first to be safe. What is important is that ntfs is not fully supported for linux; therefore, you should partition wisely. What will you be installing in windows that requires the winnt? what needs to be in linux / ? and then give everything else to a dos partition that can be used by either system which you can make "My Documents" point to in Win2k and mount it in your home directory on the Linux side. There are some problems such ass doing a 'mv mysttUff MYSTTuFF' due to the file system structure but you will learn to live with it. This works well for me because I have about 10 gigs of mp3s and about 4 gigs of documents accessible at all times. If I ever reinstall a all I have to do is back up my home directory excluding the partition with 'My Documents' and just reinstall win2k a Linux distro. The problem is that your documents will not be on the root directory ( ~ ). My fix is to have a command on the .bash_profile, .bashrc .profile or whatever your distribution uses with a 'cd Documents' ( bash in slackware is configured differently than Redhat distros so I assume there are differences in others as well ). After that, all you have to remember is to do a cd or cd .. when you need to access configuration files. I hope that helps. If anyone has a better suggestion I am always willing to try something else. Later, Al
