Can anyone help please?
I installed mandrake on an old 32mByte machine with two hd's. I have win98
on first (8gig)hd and put linux on second (4gig)hd. Linux did not work so
am going to reinstall it on my main 512mByte, 17gig machine. I Intend to
partition the 17gig and dual boot with win2000pro/linux.
On the old machine, I have tried to reclaim the 4gig harddrive and give it
back to win98. Have deleted & formatted the hd but did not know how to
immobilize the dual boot process - I thought I would deal with that later.
That time has now arrived :-) When I now boot the machine the dual boot menu
does not appear and it simply boots to display "grub>" as the prompt.
Please bear in mind that I am completely stupid where linux is concerned and
not much better at windows (although I did my stint with assembler, c and
basic in the 8080 days - had to put that in :-) - don't like to appear too
stupid )
My questions:
On the old machine, how do I immobilize the dual boot process, get rid of
the "grub>" prompt, and simply boot straight into windows?
On my new machine: will an 8gig partition be large enough for mandrake 8 and
do I install mandrake first and win2000 second (win2000 sets up multi boot
with w98 fine but will it recognise or 'see' linux) or, do I wait until I
learn how to set up multi boot from within linux? Obviously I would prefer
that win2000 does it for me so that I can then get into linux quickly and
start to learn all these clever linux things :) It's a chicken and egg
situation if win2000 won't 'do the dual bit' for me.
Help appreciated
Sorry if the above is a bit garbled.
TIA
Dave S.
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