If you've installed boot magic and are booting the ntloader from it, it
will be a piece of cake. Don't use DiskDrak to format your partitions
though, use the existing formatted partitions you made with partition
magic and just assign them / and /home and /swap, etc. and don't put
lilo in the mbr. For some reason, a couple of times I had a problem
with the partition table (as viewed from partition magic) if I formatted
the already partition magic created ext2 partitions with DiskDrak. The
installation worked fine and boot magic worked fine, but partition magic
would no longer load. The last dozen or so times I've used the NT
bootloader instead, it is a bit more difficult but eliminates the need
for more software.
Michael wrote:
>
> I have a Dell Lattitude CPX Laptop running NT Workstation 4.0. I want
> to install Linux, and have defragged my drives and installed Partition
> Magic 5.0 to re-partition the NTFS file system and have created my
> rescue disks and the system backed up.
>
> Is there anything anything else I should be aware of, specific to NT,
> before attempting the install? I have already installed Mandrake on my
> desktop which is also running Win95 and that went relatively smooth.
> Just checking;-)
> --
> Michael Lewis
> Registered Linux User #197864
