On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:26:37 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 09 Sep 2005 17:14, Iggep wrote: > > > > Other than the standard "make sure your data is backed up?" No. > > Ghosted ;-) > > > I'm > > running a dual boot (XP/LE 2005) Presario x6000 laptop myself. I'm > > greatly impressed with the progress Mandrake/Mandriva has made with > > their installer over the past couple years, so there shouldn't be any > > issues for you. Well, perhaps some weird wireless driver issues. Or > > not, just depends. Since you've already re-partitioned, you won't have > > to worry about that even though I've found Mandriva handles partitions > > quite nicely. > > > I used Partition Magic to shrink the partitions, then created two > unformatted partitions and a swap partition. I let MDV do the formatting, > and everything went swimmingly. > > > Should be a piece of cake for ya. > > So far - finger crossed ;-) > > Anne May I add that I have written to my Mdk backup partition from my win2k box for years and not had a problem. I use expresspcb for proto work (can't get them to port to linux). I usually load the prog and file from the server (mdk), save it locally, then backup to the server at the end of the day. Was I on the edge again, or is that safe? Lee
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