On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. > > I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave > > since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect > > it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? > > Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that > you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary > disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb > and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other > options are available. If you use Partion magic to shrink you NTFS partion run the move app program first and after and it will edit the registry and setup any of the windows programs that have moved drives. A little trick I have learned when installing linux on a machine with multiple drives or partions is to leave the drive/ partion "unallocated". in other words no file system on a partion on a Linux / Win shared drive and no partion on a drive to used solely by Linux. The Linux installer will defualt to useing the free space. When I first moved over from dos /win file system to Linux file systems I got confused with the change from drives a, c, d, to hda, hdb for IDE drives and hda1, hda2 for partions.REMEBER to back up anything inportant before sizeing partions or installing Linux. > > As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master > boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake > and XP each time that you boot your system. > > > Will it > > install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? > > Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, > writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing > FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading > and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard > workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or > similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move > your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows > applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff > like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, > yada yada... > > -- cmg
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