haroon,
Just to provide a little more information (IIRC):
1. Yes, it's better if there is free space (i.e., not within a Windows
partition) on the disk. Partition Magic is not the only way to free up
some space.
2. Some of the installation modes (what are they -- beginner(?),
____(?), expert) will assume that you want to wipe out windows to
install Linux. Expert mode (and maybe some others) will let you choose
where to put Linux and avoid wiping out windows.
Hope this helps,
Randy Kramer
Terry wrote:
>
> Haroon,
>
> I had this same problem the first time I tried to install LM 7.2 on my win
> 2000 machine here at work. It totally wiped out my Windows partition. The
> only way I was able to get it to work properly was to use Partition Magic to
> resize my windows partition so that it didn't take up the entire drive in
> order for Linux to have some room to work.
>
> Terry
>
> On Saturday 26 May 2001 09:59, you wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual
> > boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my
> > windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system.
> >
> > i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to
> > get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice
> > would be great.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > haroon
> >
> >
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