I too am a System Commander fan, (have been for years) and tried to use it to boot Mandrake 8.1 along with Win98 and Win2000. I had the MS OSs loaded first, however, and tried to load Mandrake afterwards. The results were disastrous: I lost both MS installations as Mandrakes's installer insisted on destroying the partition table. Ironically, SC has been so reliable for me in the past that I'm not familiar with the recovery tools, and was unable to recover.
The other challenge is that with System Commander one needs to set up the Linux boot record in a "superblock" on the /boot partition, but the Mandrake installer insisted on installing LILO or GRUB and stuffing the boot block into the hda MBR, which is a bad thing. The 8.1 installer is really badly broken. I confess I have neither the expertise nor the time to navigated around those problems, and went back to the latest version of Red Hat, whose installer is not mindlessly bent on destroying all other OSs on the disk. Red Hat and System Commander work well together. For you, Marcia, I suspect that SC will happily do the job, transferring the LILO or GRUB MBR record into it's own data structure. You must of course have space for another FAT or FAT32 primary partition (which Win98 and SC both need). I'd recommend you upgrade to SC7 if you haven't already - there are improved partition-wrangling features you'll like, plus a slightly nicer GUI, if you care about such things. If someone can help Marcia and I out on these issues we'd both be most grateful. julian. ===================================== At 05:10 AM 12/7/01 -0500, you wrote: >Dear All, > >I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with >Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, >however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use >the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. > >Sincerely, > >Marcia > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ==============================
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