Ralph, I'd recommend using Partition Magic to carry out all your manipulations on XP. Follow the preparatory steps recommended by PM. Then use PM to shrink the space allocated to XP. If your user data are on a separate virtual drive, convert that to FAT32. Install MD in the free space and install lilo as your bootloader. You can then look at your NTFS partition and write to your FAT32 partition in Linux and dual-boot into Linux or XP.
Good luck! DougB On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:34, Ralph Bagwell wrote: > My effort to install Mandrake 9.1 on a PC that has Windows XP already > installed has stopped at the "partitioning" phase twice . I now recall > a comment somewhere that Linux doesn't like NTFS systems - Can I > install on this XP machine that is using NTFS? If not can I use > Partition Magic and create a FAT 32 partition and go from there? > > I'm on hold !! > > Thanks > > Ralph
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