Thanks Matt - sounds fine to me, although scary. I guess I'm just going to have to go ahead and install. I did try and install on a smaller machine (as a pre-test) that I managed to salvage from work - 500m hard drive, AMD200 processor, 49MB ram, - which was going to be a dedicated LINUX machine However, KDE installed fine, but was terribly slow (unworkable). I tried installing Gnome, as I'd heard that it was a lot less needy of resources, but I've always got an error. There was an error with the file''. - could this be a problem with the CD that I bought? --------------------------------------------------------- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 > on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by > > Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy, > > or am I committed? Will Win still recognise the HD as F:? > > When you install mandrake, it will replace window's MBR with lilo. Lilo will > allow you to choose whether you want to run windows or linux at boot. > > When removing mandrake, one thing you'd need to do is restore your windows > mbr. The mbr is the master boot record, which is what the system looks to in > order to load an OS when the system is booting. To restore your windows mbr, > type in a DOS window: > > fdisk /MBR > > Now, to kill of mandrake, just run fdisk from a DOS prompt, and reclaim the > partition as fat32 (or fat16, whichever you're using). When rebooting > Windows should recognize the partition, when you try to access the drive > Windows will say it needs to be reformatted. Just reformat it as Windows > directs and the drive will be back to what it originally was (sans any files > it had on it). > > Matt > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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