On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:15, Ian MacGregor wrote: > I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake > 10.0 and am still only using half of my partition. That should give > you an idea of how much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It > will really depend on how much you will fill up with personal files. > I don't know much about WindowsXP, but, I just accepted the default > partitioning that MK 10.0 offered and am very happy. I have Red Hat > Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 10.0 in a dual boot setup. > > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 7:56 pm, Laura Callier wrote: > > This is advice I'll certainly use. I just started to work with > > 10.0. I may want to partition my compter, and run xp and mandrake. > > I suppose I could get Knoppix...also, from what you say, I could > > use any other distro to set up a partition. I think I have a > > xandros and a fedora disc. > > > > I do have a question about partitioning. If I decide to dual boot > > with xp and mandrake, is there a particular size of partition that > > I should manke for mandrake, or should I just follow the > > recommended partition of the other linux distro I'll be using for > > the partitioning? > > > > Laura > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:11 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved > > > > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:18, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > > I found the answer to the problem I was having a few days ago, > > > > installing Mandrake 10 alongside XP. It appears there's a > > > > problem with the partitioner in the Mandrake setup, which > > > > damages the existing FAT. This explains why it was impossible > > > > to recover the XP install. The workaround is simple - boot off > > > > any other Linux distro, set up your partitions there, quit and > > > > start the Mandrake install. > > > > > > I had the same problem, came up with the same solution. Happened > > > to me on a machine that was dual booting, and one that was only > > > linux. It seems that the partitioner has a problem reading some > > > types of drives/setups. > > > Knoppix was my friend on both of those occasions. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-------- - ---- > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > > ____________________________________________________ I had no problem dual booting with windows XP and mandrake. But lots of difficulties with two versions of linux. For instance I was unable to select two '/' mount points on the same HD. -- Regards; Hoyt
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