On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:46 am, et wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 08:03 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > > G'day all, > > Because of weight restrictions in my baggage allowance when > > I recently moved from Australia to Thailand, I was forced to > > sell off my old computers and bits etc - so now I don't have > > the luxury of having a whole computer I can just stick Linux > > on and it won't matter if I break it:) > > But I want to succeed, ultimately, so I'll take a deep breath > > and try for a dual boot system... > > > > I just built a new system last night, [It's running Win2Kpro] > > with a 40G hard drive I was thinking of splitting in halves > > with Partition Magic, and I've got an 80G HDD I brought with > > me from Australia that has all my backing tracks etc in wav > > files an MP3s, and CoolEditPro sessions etc. > > > > I'd like some help, please, to avoid any possible "gotcha's" to > > get this to work - I'm not looking for detailed point by point, > > just the major steps and in which order to do them - lets see how > > far I get :)) > > > > * If I split the 40G into two 20G partitions, how can I install > > Mandrake on the other half without it taking over the whole > > drive? > > > > * How can I make Mandrake see the files on the other half of the > > 40G, as well as the 80G? > > > > * oh, and btw will Win2K be able to see the Linux files too? > > > > Thanks in advance for the guidance... > > the install will be fine, install win2k as Fat and not ntfs on the first > partition of the drive and linux will be able to read and write them, > (about 1/2 of the drive), after completly setup win2k, then boot from the > cd with Mandrake, and allow it the rest of the hard drive and pick the > "expert" install, chose at least 3 gigs as / and a swap about 2 times as > much as the amount of system mem, up to about 300 megs /home to be about 2 > gigs, as a file system use either ext2 or ext3 or if you have a problem > with power or unexpected shutdowns use Reiserfs, but without added > software, win2k will never know there is an install of Linux and will not > be able to read and write them. > Linux plays nice with everybody and works correctly. > M$win does NOT play nice with anyone not from their family and does not > really work "correctly" IMHO
There is really no need to use PM--just partition/format half the drive for win2K and install and mandrake will happily configure itself for the other half. As ed said, use FAT32 for maximum utility of windows to linux and vice-versa file exchange (managed by linux). Mandrake has its own partition manager called diskdrake which you will see during install if you choose to customize the linux partitions. Civileme
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