Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2

[John Richard Smith]

Chuck Vose wrote:

Mukul Sabharwal wrote:

Hi thanks for the reply.

Well I want to know (before starting) that I have Mandrake 9.2 RC2
installed, and I have WinXP running too.
Basically if I do the floppy boot, and let it run, I won't be able to do
anything I presume. Anyway, that seems ok.
The problem is that will it screw up my previous installation or
something of XP and RC2. I do want it to go in the RC2 partition that
I've created.
Thanks.

P.S. - Does anybody know when the ISO's come out ?

 

Mandrake is really good about not killing your other installations. 
I'm currently running Mandrake 9.2 and XP just like you are. But no 
matter what if Mandrake or any other distro (or practically anything 
for that matter) screws with your bootloader and makes it impossible 
to boot you can boot into the recovery console through the XP install 
cd and run FIXMBR and it will make XP bootable again. That is unless 
YOU nuke your xp partition or something (read: Partition Magic Pro, etc).
As for the official cd's, they're already shipping so you should 
probably see them popping up on mirrors shortly. Nice place to check 
is http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29 . It's a little 
clearer than the Mandrake download page :)


Are these the finished thing ?

MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD1.i586.iso
MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD2.i586.iso
MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD3.i586.iso
John

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