I do it tonight. I hope mine goes well....
My biggest changes will be to use my whole 20G on my HD and
I will unplug my mouse outa the PS/2 port and go to the USB.......
I have no problems with Win files... I don't have any except on 1 CD.....
MarkP
>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.
