On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:12 pm, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hey guys! > I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 > and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. > Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be > the correct steps? > Insert the first CD, > Reboot the system, > Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up, > Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press [Enter] > Anyone know of anything to look out for? How will the notebook know to > prompt for duel boot? > Thanks > Dan
Dan: lnx4win? I thought this died when 8.0 was released. It was aimed at Windows users who wanted to experiment with Linux without experiencing the thrill of repartitioning, and it was never intended to be anything except a tool for experimentation. I never tried it, but I understand that it was glacially slow and somewhat buggy, and, in marketing-speak, turned out to be an answer to a question that nobody had asked. My 2 cents: Set aside some of that extra 20 gb for Mandrake and do a normal installation. Mandrake will take care of the dual-booting. (I know how to do it with win9x, but not 2K; I'll leave that to others.) One thought: Linux can read and write to FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, but it can't write to the NT-based filesystems native to win2k. Therefore, create a common FAT32 partition for data that you want to share between Mandrake and windows. You'll have to reconfigure some of your windows apps to do this. An additional benefit will be simplified backups. -- cmg
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