On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:32:48 -0400 "Charles P. Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I presently am dual booting Win98SE and Win2K on a 9 or 10GB HDD. I also > have a 40GB drive with apps and data, partitioned into 9 1/2 GB chunks. > > I like Win2K, but it will be my last M$ OS (XP turns me off and Palladium > scares me) and would like to replace 98SE, which is on the C: portion of > the small HDD and is 2.92GB, with Mandrake 8.2, which a friend with DSL > burned the 3 ISOs to CD for me. > > As most of E: is devoted to 98 apps and data, that would eventually become > available for Mandrake use also. > > Everything is FAT32. > > The default boot is 98SE on start-up, unless I use the arrow key to select > 2000. > > I have 1.03GB free space on the C: drive. well, i assume you know how to make partitions to a drive ;oP anyway, have you booted the CD's? do it just to see how the installation's first screens look. i guess you can say i was a bit suicidal, but the first time i installed linux in my life, it was a Mandrake 7.1 CD i got with a magazine. i installed with 0 help, 0 manuals, just reading the buttons' captions, the 'help' text shown in the screen during the installation, and a couple of trial-and-error installs ;o) really, installing Linux is no harder than Win98 or 2K, in fact, it may be even easier. just a couple of warnings: 1- make backups before starting the installation. and defrag all your harddrives ( go into defrag's options and click NOT to arrange apps so they start up faster. Do this so the data is well arranged in the drive and the partitions can be resized more easily) you see, Linux can be installed on FAT32 ( or so i heard around here) but it's really not the right thing to do. you are going to have to delete/resize some of your partitions and create new ones for linux. ( Mandrake's installation program includes a 'select partition' stage which will let you do all kinds of operations on your partitions without hassle, and it's quite easy to use. ) and 2- don't select the 'newbie' kind of installation, as it takes care of the partitioning automatically and may end up overwriting partitions that are valuable to you. choose the 'expert' one. .. well, there's really not much left unless you feel like posting back with more questions.. good luck. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
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