As for size - it depends what you're planning on doing. XP Home with Office and Publisher XP, plus other software, is currently taking up 4GB of its partition, while Mandrake with similar amounts of software takes perhaps slightly less. Depening on how many files you'll want to access between the two systems, you may want a large FAT32 partition - and perhaps place XP's My Documents on it.
Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:15, Ian MacGregor wrote:
I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake 10.0 and am still only using half of my partition. That should give you an idea of how much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It will really depend on how much you will fill up with personal files. I don't know much about WindowsXP, but, I just accepted the default partitioning that MK 10.0 offered and am very happy. I have Red Hat Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 10.0 in a dual boot setup.
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 7:56 pm, Laura Callier wrote:
This is advice I'll certainly use. I just started to work with
10.0. I may want to partition my compter, and run xp and mandrake.
I suppose I could get Knoppix...also, from what you say, I could use any other distro to set up a partition. I think I have a
xandros and a fedora disc.
I do have a question about partitioning. If I decide to dual boot with xp and mandrake, is there a particular size of partition that I should manke for mandrake, or should I just follow the recommended partition of the other linux distro I'll be using for the partitioning?
Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:18, Owain Sutton wrote:
I found the answer to the problem I was having a few days ago, installing Mandrake 10 alongside XP. It appears there's a problem with the partitioner in the Mandrake setup, which damages the existing FAT. This explains why it was impossible to recover the XP install. The workaround is simple - boot off any other Linux distro, set up your partitions there, quit and start the Mandrake install.
I had the same problem, came up with the same solution. Happened to me on a machine that was dual booting, and one that was only linux. It seems that the partitioner has a problem reading some types of drives/setups. Knoppix was my friend on both of those occasions.
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I had no problem dual booting with windows XP and mandrake. But lots of difficulties with two versions of linux. For instance I was unable to select two '/' mount points on the same HD.
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