Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general process, but newbie as I am, I need some help in applying it for Mandrake (8.1). It's the first step of the process that I can't figure out: "Make a small (10 megs) as /dev/hda1 and mount your Linux boot partition there. Do this before you install Windows. Then install Windows... [snip]... then install Linux... [snip]" OK, so I do what I think it says. I fire up the Mandrake installation utility and start setting the system up. When the time comes to create the partitions, I make a /boot partition. Then I'm apparently supposed to stop the installation procedure, exit the installer and install Windows before finishing the Linux install. But the installer won't let me do that: it keeps complaining that I should make a /root partition or stuff to that effect. What am I misunderstanding here? Can someone give me insight on this? (And BTW, the partition size slider in the Mandrake installer is so big-grained that it won't let me create a partition smaller than 196 megs. Is there any way around that?) +Cinquo
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