Glad I'm not the only one who had this problem -
I did get it sorted, but this was more through luck than skill. and took a
couple of installs,sorry I cant help much more though.
one point I would like to make is that with hindsight I would have installed
few application into windows first, as when you do the auto allocate it
shrinks your win partition right down ,so if you install an app your not
going to use you can uninstall it afterwards to get some space back on you
win partition.
couple of questions
how can I get win98 to see my linux drives - is that a dumb question)
any one had any luck with getting a win modem to work I found some stuff on
linmodems.org but as I'm very new to this I haven't got ver y far.
Dek
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.0
> I am a new user to Linux-Mandrake 7.0, well I should say potential new
user!
> I obtained a copy of Mandrake 7.0 from last month's issue of PC Plus. I
> followed the instructions in the magazine and on the CD ROM expecting to
be
> able to dual the system and be able to use Windows when needed.
>
> When the system rebooted I found (on pressing the <<TAB>> key to pull up
the
> OS menu) that there was no option to use Windows. I am not especially
> familiar with Unix and the layout so I ended up reinstalling Win98. At the
> initial install I used the "Auto Allocate" feature to resize my Windows
> partition and allocate the appropriate partitions for Linux, but I ended
up
> reformating the entire hard disk and losing Windows.
>
> LILO infact only gave me the option to boot using "linux" and "floppy". I
> find the action of repartitioning the hard disk quite daunting and I am
> loath to try it again. However, I really do want to try linux on my
system.
>
> I have a AMD Athlon 600 Mhz PC, with a 27Gb HDD and 128 Mb of RAM, running
> Windows 98SE. I have had no real problems in Linux detecting my hardware,
in
> fact it seems to work quite well, but as I have a number of Windows
> applications (who doesn't, but that may change after the Department of
> Justice ruling yesterday!!!) I want the flexibility to use both OS.
>
> Please could anyone help with an "idiots guide" to installing Mandrake
7.0,
> with particular detail around repartitioning the HDD and getting LILO in
the
> right place to boot either OS?
>
> Thanks
>
> Parminder Bansal
>
>
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