VVS> Yesterday I bought a 40 Gb hard drive to replace my old 2-gig one. VVS> The oldish BIOS refuses to detect it so I asked around for alternative VVS> ways to get the disk working so that I can the olde Win95/Mandrake VVS> doubleboot on it. I received a helpful reply describing the general VVS> process, but newbie as I am, I need some help in applying it for VVS> Mandrake (8.1).
VVS> It's the first step of the process that I can't figure out: VVS> "Make a small (10 megs) as /dev/hda1 and mount your Linux boot VVS> partition there. Do this before you install Windows. Then install VVS> Windows... [snip]... then install Linux... [snip]" VVS> OK, so I do what I think it says. I fire up the Mandrake installation utility VVS> and start setting the system up. When the time comes to create the partitions, VVS> I make a /boot partition. Then I'm apparently supposed to stop the VVS> installation procedure, exit the installer and install Windows before VVS> finishing the Linux install. But the installer won't let me do that: it keeps VVS> complaining that I should make a /root partition or stuff to that effect. What VVS> am I misunderstanding here? Can someone give me insight on this? VVS> (And BTW, the partition size slider in the Mandrake installer is so VVS> big-grained that it won't let me create a partition smaller than 196 VVS> megs. Is there any way around that?) VVS> +Cinquo The installer does not like it because you did not define a root partition. So the "installer" does not know where to "install". Just define a 10MB or so /boot , as hda1, then define your windows partition as hda2 (maybe you will have to make it active) then define your mandrake root partition. The trick is that "/boot" and "windows first partition" shall be named as hda1 and hda2 (or vice versa) and that they are both limited to the first 8GB. Rest will be managed by lilo and your OS. For the slider, try the arrow keys on your keyboard. Onur Kucuk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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