Easy, install Mandrake so that the boot partition is well within the first
8 gigs off your harddrive. My situation with my 19 gig drives is
first 6 gigs win2k
next 3 gis mandrake
last 10 gigs windows(media partition)
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> Hello,
>
> I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading up
> trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the documentation on
> the Mandrake page, the Instillation How-To, the Win95+Linux How-
> To, and a few others. Some of them mention that with some
> distributions of Linux, on some computers, bootable partitions
> must completely reside below the 1024th cylinder.
>
> How do I know if I need to have my Linux boot partition below the
> 1024th cylinder when partitioning my drive? I bought Partition
> Magic to help with the partitioning.
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
>
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