Hi Charlie, Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions. Unfortunately i got stuck after choosing Expert installation where after which it couldn't read my partitions properly. u might want to refer to my mail t stephen for a full explanation.
Sean > > > Hi Sean; > > I'm not quite certain what's causing the aggravating or why, but I spent an > unproductive hour (or four) on the phone with a friend last week trying to > solve it. Then I got cranky and gave him different instructions and it > worked. The instructions were (condensed) as follows: > > Fresh install, wiping all _OS_ partitions; but keeping any personal data > (pictures, music, movies, etc) on a 'shared' FAT32 partition previously > available. This is easier for totally fresh installs but the steps are the > same: > > First; boot to Mandrake install disk 1, > > choose install, expert, > > any partitions visible in the diskdrake screen except the one that contains > the data desired for 'save' are _individually_ deleted, > > use the desired partition sizes already determined for XP and make those > partitions as FAT32 (you'll format these later during XP install anyway, and > you wanted to convert one to NTFS but this will be easiest for now), > > make the desired Linux partitions in whatever file system format you've > chosen. ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, whatever you desire. If you want a seperate > /boot be sure it's ext2 or ext3 since you'll only get grief at the make boot > disk stage later and you don't want to skip that do you? :-) > > format **only** the Linux partitions and allow diskdrake to write the > partition table to disk, > > exit the install since you'll have to boot from the Mandrake install disk > later anyway and it's a waste of time for now otherwise. XP (like all things > Microsoft) doesn't play nice with others in other words, > > boot from the XP install disk and work only with the FAT32 section of the > drive that you allocated for XP install. (2 partitions I believe you said?) > Don't allow Windows to touch the rest of the disk except for recognition of > any pre-existing "shared data" FAT 32 partitions. Be careful it doesn't try > to format that or you'll hate it later almost as much as I do now. ;) > > Once finished with that "expert" install Mandrake as usual, avoiding the XP > partitions except for providing mount point information; then install > packages as desired. > > In my friend's situation he wanted XP to be default so that his wife and kids > wouldn't freak when exposed to Mandrake. I walked him through editing lilo > during a later call. > > I hope this is of some use. > > Regards; > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." > - Voltaire > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
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