> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello > Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 > To: MDK Mandrake > Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question > > > Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this > week :-) > > 1.- *First of all*, install Windows 2000/XP. > 2.- Create a FAT32 partition to hold data that you want to read/write > with Windows and Mandrake. > 3.- Install Mandrake. > > It is this easy. > > You will get a dual boot system. >
G'day, Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far: * I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry.... LOL * I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS partition down to 8G, and labelled it "windoze". * I added another 8G partition, made it FAT32 [on a guess - I figured if Linux couldn't see files on a NTFS partition it probably couldn't install in one either:)], labelled it "linux" * set the remaining 22G [I wonder where the other 2G went???] as FAT32 and labelled it "archive". I fired up windows and moved my data from C: to E: [the newly created archive partition]. So far so good - windoze sees all three partitions. Put in Mandrake 9.0 CD1, went through the languages, kbd/mouse, security - accepted the defaults as they seemed reasonable. "Setup Filesystems" shows a graphical representation something like this: +---------+------------+---------------------------------------------+ | | | | | /mnt/nt | /mnt/win_c | /mnt/win_d | | | | | +---------+------------+---------------------------------------------+ This **looks** right, but it's not seeing the labels, and it **seems** to be confused: what it calls win_c is actually E and what it calls win_d is actually F [D: is the CDROM]. To be fair, it does say "just a guess" in the details box when I click on each partition. But: there doesn't seem to be any way [that I can see] to be sure. And even if I was pretty sure that the second partition is the one to put Linux on, I don't see any way on this screen to tell it to do that. "Auto Allocate" says: "not enough space for auto-allocating" The wizard gives three options: - erase the entire disk - use the free space on the windoze partition - use the windoze partition for loopback I clicked on "toggle to expert mode" [with some trepidation, because clearly I'm not - LOL] and found a button to format the partitions, but I chickened out, because I can't be sure which partition is which. And anyhow, the partitions are already formatted FAT32 - do they need to be formatted again to put Linux on them? I guess I'm looking for some button that says "install here"... ...asking too much? <g> -- Merlin Zener piano and synthesizer Pattaya, Thailand. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/2003
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