It's perfectly possible. I usually make a fat16/32 partition with fdisk under
dos, and leave the rest of the drive alone (you might consider making a small 16
MB partition at the very beginning of the disk as boot-partition, then later
convert it with the partition editor in the mandrake install).
Then I pop the CD in the drive, and proceed with my linux install.
Of course, it must be possible to tell mandrake you wish a primary Fat32
partition too, but after having had quite some problems with RedHat's tool
(DiskDruid) which always placed my primary win-partition in an extended
partition area, I finally gave up and did it the way described above.
On Feb 28 Pieter Smith wrote:
> Hi
>
> A drive is limited to having 4 primary partitions. Windows gets around
> this by placing a lot of drive letters in a single primary extended
> partition.
>
> When Mandrake installs, it creates four primary partitions on its own:
> The boot, root, home and swap partitions. All four of these partitions
> are primary, leaving no room for a primary C: FAT32 partition. How do I
> get around this problem? Is there a way to get both OSes on the same
> drive?
>
> Regards,
> Pieter Smith
>
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