A) you can do that.
B) you want necesarrily ruin the MBR (but you'll ruin the windows partition). The best way is to use fdisk, and after eliminating the windows partition, start the new partition in block 1).
C) just in case, copy the mbr (using dd) to some file on your MDK partition, dd it to a diskette (or just use grub-install, or lilo), so in case something goes wrong, you can boot from the diskette.
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Aviv Goll wrote:
hi, I want to install gentoo but i can't disable my computer for so many hours so i wanna do it step by step through another linux distro (mandrake) which is already installed. problem is, the partition i want to use is preoccupied with a windows installation on a FAT32 partition and moreover, this is the first partition on the HD. if i format that partition, will the MBR be hurt? will i still be able to boot to the Mandrake if i turn off the computer?
Thanks - Aviv
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