Antonio R. wrote:
Hi again:OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?... My computer didn’t boot from the CD. I know that my computer can boot from a CD, but it doesn’t want to boot from a CD that has an ISO file. So, what do I have to do? The file has the name: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
Looks like you wrote the iso file to CD instead of writing the contents of the iso file to disc. I'm guessing you used a windblows programme like easy CD writer, or nero. You have to make sure you write the iso file in the correct manner to disc.
If you have Partition Magic , fine, PM can repartition without loss of data
What do I have to do? Do I have to change the name? Do I have to change the extension? Do I have to buy a new computer? ☺
Well, that’s the first question, now the second one.
I have a HD with the following partition:
C:\ File System: FAT32 Size: 15.5 GB Free Space: 6.86 GB
D:\ File System: NTFS Size: 40.2 GB Free Space: 19.8 GB
OK, that is just one hard disk with two partitions :). I've read somewhere that I can't do a new partition in a NTFS file system because I'm going to loose all my information :( and I really don't want this to happen.
So, can I do a partition JUST in the C:\ partition? I really don't understand how partitions work, but if I can do a new partition in the C:\ partition... Do I have enough space (Free Space: 6.68 GB) to do a partition for Mandrake?
Well, that is all; I hope I can do a new partition, because I will not format my computer. I read that there is a program called Partition Magic... does this program really works? Once again I will not format my computer, not because I don't want, but because I can't... My computer is the server of my house; there are 5 more computers connected to it. Nobody here knows how to set up a server, so if I have to format my computer everybody here will hate me, and will start making plans of how to kill me :).
OK, CYA guys and TIA.
Antonio R.
on either fat32 , ntfs or any other file sytem. If not , mandrake's diskdrake
can repartition vfat(fat32) partitions but not ntfs.
looks to me as though you created the dual boot windblows OS's, what
partition tools did you use ?
Also you have a something like 80gig hard drive, why not partition it
up into some usful chunks, then use those spare partitions as usful
storage partitions, or change the use to anything you want, it seems
pointless to have C: of 15gigs, and a D: of 40gigs, if these contain
as I assume, winblows OS's then 5gigs each would be ample. So
if you have Partition Magic , start making use of it.
John
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