Joesph, I'm going to send this to the list so that others will know how to do it also. These directions are for PMv4.0 and a dual boot system with Mandrake being on a hd all by it's lonely. from Win9x, partition your second hard drive manually using PM with linux ext2 as you can only make 4 primary partitions in linux i recommend that you make 1-primary for */*, 1 for swap, then make an extended partion with logical partions inside for /usr, /usr/local, etc. then accept what you've done let make partition magic do it's thing. shut down your machine then boot with either cdrom or boot disk. let mandrake go thru till you get the choice of fdisk or dd,choose dd then on your second hd you will already have the partitions, ie hdb1,hdb2,etc.. highlight the drive ( hdb*), tab to you get to the little box that says edit, hit enter, then label the partitions ie. /, /usr, etc. when your done with that i think the button says done and then your on your merry way to the rest of the install. now if i remember correctly if you only have one hd, still use partition magic to make your linux partitions but it gets a little more complicated <g>. if you use the boot manager that came with partition magic, ( in v3 it's called boot manager ( actually ibm os/2 bootmgr) in v4you have to install boot magic) then add the firstpartiton to the boot mgr for dual boot. also when asked where to install lilo, use the second option, the one other then the mbr. sorry for the length and any typos, haven't had my coffee yet denise On 20 Apr 99 at 17:24, joseph allen wrote: > hi, > i have a question about the following... > > "Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:31:38 -0400 > From: "d.r.stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [newbie] thanksOn 19 Apr 99 at 6:37, M & C Z. wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. I used fdisk and it worked just fine (except > > that I ran out of space during the installation, too much junk on > > DOS/Win side). I like Disk Druid's interface but for some reason it > > doesn't work for setting up the partitions. > it's a bit tricky using DD for setting up partitions from scratch. > but if you have Partition Magic set them up with that first then use > DD to polish them up." > > i have partition magic, but what kind of polishing up should i do > with disk druid for? thanks for any help..... what kind of > > _______________________________________________________________ Get > Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >
