You don't have to touch hda with your Windows 98 on it. You will be asked
to create Linux partitions, which you must be sure you are doing on your
second drive, hdb, or whatever it turns out to be. Be sure that when you
do your partitioning and formatting that you are working with the space on
hdb and not hda. The only thing that your installation procedure will do
that may involve your Windows partition is when you get to the part about
installing lilo, the boot loader. You will get the opportunity to chose
whether to install it in the MBR on the Windows partition, or on the first
partition (/boot) on your Linux drive. If you don't mind having Lilo
manage booting up for both Windows and Linux, you can chose the first way.
Or if you don't mind booting from a floppy all the time, you can chose the
second way. A third way, which I use is to have a separate boot manager,
Boot Magic in my case, that manages both systems and gives you the
opportunity to chose either at boot up. But Lilo does this, too. Other
than Lilo, don't do anything to your Windows disc at all.
Don J.
On Wed, 03 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:29:01 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Tim Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three
I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems.
First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98
on
the first one. Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to
reformat
hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the
whole
disk. Is this true? I'd like to be sure before I mess with it.
My second and third questions have to do with installing 7.0 on a IBM
Thinkpad 380E. When installing it tries to check the pcmcia cards then I
get
"An error occurred: insmod pcmcia core failed"
How do I fix this? Last but not least if I skip checking for pcmcia
cards
it goes a little farther before I get " No available partition" even
though I
used fdisk and format. How can I fix this problem?
Much thanks for any help given.
Tim Schmidt
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My dual-boot system
Works better than my Z
And isn't as greasey.
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