On Monday 10 February 2003 09:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello > > Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 > > To: MDK Mandrake > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question > > > > > > Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this > > week :-) > > > > 1.- *First of all*, install Windows 2000/XP. > > 2.- Create a FAT32 partition to hold data that you want to read/write > > with Windows and Mandrake. > > 3.- Install Mandrake. > > > > It is this easy. > > > > You will get a dual boot system. > > G'day, > Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from > Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far: > * I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry.... LOL > * I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS partition > down to 8G, and labelled it "windoze". > * I added another 8G partition, made it FAT32 [on a guess - I figured > if Linux couldn't see files on a NTFS partition it probably couldn't > install in one either:)], labelled it "linux" > * set the remaining 22G [I wonder where the other 2G went???] as FAT32 > and labelled it "archive". > > I fired up windows and moved my data from C: to E: [the newly created > archive partition]. So far so good - windoze sees all three partitions. > > Put in Mandrake 9.0 CD1, went through the languages, kbd/mouse, security > - accepted the defaults as they seemed reasonable. > "Setup Filesystems" shows a graphical representation something like this: > +---------+------------+---------------------------------------------+ > > | /mnt/nt | /mnt/win_c | /mnt/win_d | > > +---------+------------+---------------------------------------------+ > > This **looks** right, but it's not seeing the labels, and it **seems** > to be confused: In linux (it's all about choice) you can call the partiutions what ever you want, but the system "needs" to see certain standard partitions. I would also suggest that you leave the 80 gig in the box, since you will want to give them "mount points" that the system will see in linux, and you would not really want to see the drive letters switched around in windoze either, (but you might anyway, since in Linux, you control the drive names, and in Uncle billy's OS he get to make the choice for you, and what he chooses is anyones guess). but you can name the partition win_e if you like, as long as you suck it up and consider that the "Expert" is pretty much equal to "custom" on the install of most Win Software, and look for the options. As long as you do not format, you will not loose any info on the ntfs or fat partitions, and when you create linux partions, they do not need / nor sould be formated via PM, just let the diskdrake part of the install do that, but do it as expert, and untill you get used to Linux and the differnet partition schemes, just go with that second 8 gigs as one big "/" partiton.
> what it calls win_c is actually E and what it calls win_d > is actually F [D: is the CDROM]. To be fair, it does say "just a guess" > in the details box when I click on each partition. > But: there doesn't seem to be any way [that I can see] to be sure. > And even if I was pretty sure that the second partition is the one to > put Linux on, I don't see any way on this screen to tell it to do that. click on the red zone of that partition, that will select that partition, and get you some more choices (in expert) > "Auto Allocate" says: "not enough space for auto-allocating" > The wizard gives three options: > - erase the entire disk > - use the free space on the windoze partition > - use the windoze partition for loopback > > I clicked on "toggle to expert mode" [with some trepidation, because > clearly I'm not - LOL] and found a button to format the partitions, > but I chickened out, because I can't be sure which partition is which. > And anyhow, the partitions are already formatted FAT32 - do they > need to be formatted again to put Linux on them? > I guess I'm looking for some button that says "install here"... > > ...asking too much? <g>
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