I am installing Mandrake 8.1 now on my HP Pavilion. I still don't know if it will be successful or not, but the installer seems to be happily installing all the packages.
I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. Auto-allocate used the deleted Windows 98 partition and created linux, home and swap partitions instead. Then it went on to select and install packages, which it is doing now. All this without any warnings at all! You would think that before an entire partition was deleted you would get warnings like "This will delete all the data on this entire partition. Are you sure you want to do this?" But there was none of that. I was surprised. I would recommend inserting such a warning step into the procedure. doug
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