Michael Notforyou wrote:
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, joe wrote:I only have W2k, but didn't I read somewhere that XP is only installable on
I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions and pose someI don't think it particularly cares. It does, however, need to be in a
related questions: I tried to install XP in my fat32 partition, but it
refused to install there. Does XP want to be the first partition on a
disk (starting from cylinder 0)?
primary partition (not a "Logical DOS Drive in an Extended DOS
Partition" as MS Fdisk calls it).
Will I have to delete my / partition
and re-install mandrake after XP? or...
Is there anyway for me to move my mandrake partitions without losing
data, and if so how? I thought I remembered reading that diskdrake could
do something like this (when resizing), but do not see any options for
moving partitions. Again, TIA.
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 23:40, Todd Flinders wrote:
An easier way is to just make a boot disk (you can use the dd command or the Mandrake Control Center). After installing Windows, boot into GNU/Linux using your boot disk. After you log in, become root and type:
/sbin/lilo -v
That will reinstall lilo.
On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:46 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:00:54 -0700
joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know XP is going to take over, how can I get a boot loader backYes, just run it as an Expert/Upgrade.
without installing mandrake again? Can I just use the update option on
the cd and not choose any packages to install?
Since this involves a hd change the install may ask which is your /
partition.
Be sure you know and input it correctly or you will screw your drive.
Charles
NTFS partitions ? Isn't it the case that XP is the first Windblows OS to not
give the option to install on FAT32?
John
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