Re: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
Installed Mandrake 7.0 from CD to hdb (4.3 G). Used Partition Magic 4.0 to make entire second hd a linux partition. Mandrake 7 did a fine install but cannot deal with ISA PP cards. I remember RedHat 6.2 statements that an original install / as opposed to an upgrade, will erase EVERY hard disk in your PC. How nicely thought out!!! 6/26/00 10:03:46 AM, "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John If the boxed set you have is Linux Mandrake Complete you have a limited edition PartitionMagic on disc3. While in Windows insert the CD and using My Computer navigate to the PM/PtMagic folder and run Setup.exe. Then run PM and resize your Windows partition leaving the remainder of the drive as free space.( the Free space is where you will install Linux) Insert your Mandrake installlation and boot from your CD-ROM drive. The installation will see the free space on your drive and create your Linux partitions there. Charles - Original Message - From: "John Gist" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Booting from CD at install? Getting ready to do my first ever Linux install. I have the 7.0 boxed set. My CD drive is bootable. The computer has Windows on a 6.4 gig hard drive that is all one partition. I want to keep Windows and set up dual boot with Linux. In a book on Linux/Mandrake I purchased at the book store is a statement that sounds as if booting from the CD will erase the drive. If this is true I will use a floppy instead. Thanks John Try the Opera web browser and e-mail at http://www.opera.com
Re: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
Charles A Edwards wrote: John If the boxed set you have is Linux Mandrake Complete you have a limited edition PartitionMagic on disc3. While in Windows insert the CD and using My Computer navigate to the PM/PtMagic folder and run Setup.exe. Then run PM and resize your Windows partition leaving the remainder of the drive as free space.( the Free space is where you will install Linux) Insert your Mandrake installlation and boot from your CD-ROM drive. The installation will see the free space on your drive and create your Linux partitions there. Charles Thanks Charles. Great idea. I'll do it! John
Re: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
The original LM 7.0 CD had a problem if you booted from it and tried to repartition your hard drive. It could damage partitions and make them unreadable. Not quite erasing your drive, but close enough. From the LM site: February 4 2000 - Diskdrake problem (installation disks DrakXtools package) A severe problem occurs with Diskdrake when resizing certain FAT partitions. Please upgrade to drakxtools-1.0-44mdk.i586.rpm if you want to resize FAT partition. For a new install, a new ISO image mandrake70-2.iso is available for download. Other mirrors here. For those who use the former ISO image we build new install floppy disk that fixes the problem (cdrom.img, network.img, hd.img, pmcia.img) These images are incompatible with the new ISO image. Additionnaly this new installation floppy/Iso fix several bugs: Mylex DAC 960 hardware RAID handling auto-configuration bug for Matrox G100 (and some other very seldom used) a few mis-autoconfiguration fix (tulip NIC) one more kind of GeForce video card autodetected My boxed LM 7.0 came with the new boot floppy and a note to not boot from the CD because of this problem. If you are not sure you have the right boot floppy, I'd download the new one from one of the mirrors like: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/7.00/images/cdrom.img You'll have to read the doc on creating the boot floppy form the .img file. - Ralph On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Gist wrote: Getting ready to do my first ever Linux install. I have the 7.0 boxed set. My CD drive is bootable. The computer has Windows on a 6.4 gig hard drive that is all one partition. I want to keep Windows and set up dual boot with Linux. In a book on Linux/Mandrake I purchased at the book store is a statement that sounds as if booting from the CD will erase the drive. If this is true I will use a floppy instead. Thanks John
RE: [newbie] Booting from CD at install?
Not true at all. I did the CD-ROM drive boot / install and it worked fine. I can now boot into either Windows or Linux using the Grub menu. Joe -Original Message- From: John Gist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Booting from CD at install? Getting ready to do my first ever Linux install. I have the 7.0 boxed set. My CD drive is bootable. The computer has Windows on a 6.4 gig hard drive that is all one partition. I want to keep Windows and set up dual boot with Linux. In a book on Linux/Mandrake I purchased at the book store is a statement that sounds as if booting from the CD will erase the drive. If this is true I will use a floppy instead. Thanks John
