Installing Linux separately will resolve this issue. You need to make sure
that you have sufficient free space on the destination drive (I try to keep
around 1.5GB free) and make an unformatted partition there using FDISK. If
you can, make an additional 125MB unformatted partition for the swap file.
Put the Linux boot disk in the floppy drive and Disc 1 in the CD-ROM then
restart your system. When you are asked how you would like to
install/partition your HDD, choose Expert Mode. Locate the drive and
partitions you created and choose to create an ext2 partition (you can put
the mount point here). Expert Mode offers you the chance to resize
partitions (useful if you need to make room for a swap file).
Mandrake should detect the presence of Windows and, when the install is
complete and you reboot, you will be presented with a boot menu that offers
Linux and Windows. In the case of NT/9x dual boot systems the boot menu will
list DOS as an option. This will get you to the standard boot menu created
by the NT boot.ini file.
Hope this helps,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Kwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx
I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.2 to my PC which is running
WindowsMe. Win4Lnx allows the user to install Mandrake 7.2 without
re-partition the HD. Everything went smoothly until I hit the "file system
setup" where I have to choose the size for the root directory and swap file.
After choosing the desire capacity for both options, I got an error saying
that
"ext2 formating of /mnt/mnt/windows/lnx4win/linuxsys.img fail".
If anyone have a similar experience before or know how to resolve this
problem, please help.
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