Assuming your D: and E: partitions are available, your best bet for
installing Mandrake is to delete one or both, then replace it or them with a
Linux native partition (and possibly a Linux swap partition, depending on
how much RAM your system has). You can do all of this during your Linux
install using (Linux) fdisk.
Whether to replace one or both partitions is largely a matter of how large a
Linux installation you want to do. The last one I did -- workstation
oriented, using Debian -- took up about 600 megs, But I had a lot of disk
space available and didn't try to be economical -- you can get usable Linux
distributions in much less space if you need to. (Sorry to sound so vague;
it's really hard to give definitive advice without knowing what you want to
use the system for.)
If you just want to "try" Linux in a small way, there are simpler ways to do
it. A couple of smallish Linux distributions install in a DOS directory and
boot from DOS via the loadlin package. To find out about them, look at these
URLs --
DragonLinux:
http://www.dragonlinux.nu/
ZipSlack:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/zipslack/
various very small Linux distributions:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/
(includes trinux, monkey linux, small-linux, and - this one
is new to me - peanut linux)
At 09:51 PM 7/27/99 -0400, Russell Simmons wrote:
>i am new to linux, and i want to try it out on my home pc, in a dual
>boot setup...i have a w.d. hd with 3 partitions: c-1.98 mb, d-1.99 mb,
>and e-821 mb...what is the safest way to load linux on my system, (i
>don't want to loose windoze just yet)...can i put it on d, or should i
>repartion d & e into one...oh...my friend is giving me a cd of
>mandrake/rh 6.0
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