Re: [MLUG] Dual Boot

[The Geek <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Nathan Mahon wrote:

> Well..  with mandrake, you don't *have* do pre-deal with everything.
> If you're that green, and just wanting to get familiar with linux, 
> then I'd suggest just installing mandrake from windows.  Mandrake has 
> a windows mode, where you don't have to give it any partitions at 
> all... you still boot to mandrake, but it uses the windows partitions, 
> and image files which behave like partitions, but they reside in your 
> windows partitions... so ...
>  
> good luck
> n8
>  
>  
> ----Original Message-----
> *From:* jeff thomann [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 11, 2003 7:42 AM
> *To:* EMAIL:PROTECTED
> *Subject:* [MLUG] Dual Boot
>
>     In the very near future, I'm going to attempt to install Mandrake
>     9.1 as I've been told that it's very easy to install.  I've tried
>     installing Red Hat 6 before, but the installer was way too
>     confusing back then as I knew absolutely nothing about my
>     hardware, etc.  Any advice on which partition should go where? 
>     I'm going to try to get it so that the dual boot will have
>     Mandrake, Windows 98, and Windows xp, with xp being the default
>     that comes up if you don't press any buttons.  Should the windows
>     partitions be set up prior to the Mandrake one, or vice versa? 
>     The dual boot instructions from Microsoft's site on getting xp and
>     98 up has been helpful up to this point - if you follow those
>     instructions, you put xp on the system, format the 98 p! artition,
>     then put xp on again after that - which requires a total of 3
>     partition spaces to start with... I've read that Linux will
>     require one normal partition and one shared... so how many
>     partitions should I put in to get dual booter for Linux, Windows
>     XP, and Windows 98 all on the same machine?  Would there have to
>     be 3 for the windows and 2 for the Linux for a total of 5, or
>     would there need to be fewer than that as there would only be 3
>     OSes?!?
>
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There is always the Knoppix Avenue, download the ISO from thier web site 
and burn it. Insert the Cd into the drive and reboot your machine. You 
now have Linux.

--Sam

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