the addresses should be ok, the Mandrake installation program have
partition utilities you will probably be asked to use. The major part is
to resize windows without lossing any data. Then I would use the free
space to install linux with the given installer.
I don't remember the 7.2 installation, but they should let you boot from
floppy drive and without floppy for windows, by selecting fd0 instead.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jeffery Chapman wrote:
> I've created a partition and swap file space on my secondary harddrive. I
> used Partition Magic to create the partitions.
>
> The harddisk now looks like this:
> |--- windows ---||--- linux part ---||--- linux swap ---|
> | /dev/hdb1 || /dev/hdb2 || /dev/hdb3 |
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Am I correct on the /dev/ addresses?
>
> 2) Will the Mandrake installation program recognize the linux partitions
> I've created as the place to install linux? Currently there is nothing in
> the partitions. The documentation is a bit fuzy in this area. Will the
> install program ask me where to install?
>
> I'm not the only user of the PC and I really do not want to risk destroying
> any data in the first partition.
>
> 3) If I do a custom install, will I be prompted on whether or not to install
> a bootloader or can I just skip the step? I don't want to install GRUB or
> have it automatically installed.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
