Congrats. Welcome to the world of Linux. You'll love it. Roman Justin Johnson wrote: > > When I woke up this morning, I had no intention of installing MDK 7.1 on my > machine. But, after look at my drive with Partition Magic, I gave it a > 'what the hell' and went to work. > > Here are the steps I took: > > - made a new (unformatted) partition with PM 5.0. it's 2.5gb at the end of > a 20.5gb drive, and the only drive in my system. > > - booted from my MDK install cd, went thru the expert install. it ended up > being about 1.5gb of packages, using the extensions cd. also, i chose to > install grub on /hde (not /hde1 or anything else, just /hde). oh yeah, my > hard drive is on a connector that's labeled as IDE3 (out of 4 > connectors). 3 and 4 are for ata/66 and 1 and 2 are for ata/33, so that's > why the device is /hde instead of /hda. > > - rebooted after install, could load windows just fine. > > - rebooted the computer, started into linux just fine. > > - i can access my windows files in linux. > > - i can use my soundblaster live. > > - i can use my Logitech Mouseman + and the wheel just fine. > > - i think that's a good portion of the topics discussed on this forum. :) > > anyway, just felt like sharing my success story. i've decided not to mess > with Mandrake Update at all, because if it isn't broken, there's no point > trying to fix it. > > good luck, all. > > --- > jj.
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