RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
You could leave the partition as NTFS, but you would only be able to read data off of the NTFS partitions. If you wanted to share files, both Read and Write, then you would either create a FAT32 partition, or I do believe there are some NTFS projects out there on Freshmeat or Sourceforge that would give Linux the ability to Read and Write data to an NTFS partition. I haven't done the later, but I would be curious to know if anyone else out there has been able to do this. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stefano Pogliani Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook Thanks ! /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 5:08 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Do you mean that if I have a single C Disk on W2K, installing Linux would also create the Linux partitions and shrink the C partition ? If w2k is on fat32, yes. If it's ntfs that's more difficult. You will need a third party partitioning tool to deal with that. You would also be wise to have a fat32 data partition for sharing between windows and linux. Anne --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 05:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could leave the partition as NTFS, but you would only be able to read data off of the NTFS partitions. If you wanted to share files, both Read and Write, then you would either create a FAT32 partition, or I do believe there are some NTFS projects out there on Freshmeat or Sourceforge that would give Linux the ability to Read and Write data to an NTFS partition. I haven't done the later, but I would be curious to know if anyone else out there has been able to do this. Chris Just to jump in here really quick, I just did a dual boot on a 20gb - my scheme was to install XP Pro on VFAT on a 14gb partition, and linux (not going to say which distro) on the remaining 6gb. XP was loaded first, then the partition moved to the back of the drive with PQM. Linux was installed on the remaining partition - 20mb for /boot, 600mb for SWAP and the rest for the unnamed distro. Lilo used for the boot on the MBR. Automounting done on the VFAT partition so that it actually mounts on the KDE desktop, along with a shortcut link to the guys My Documents on the XP side of life. StarOffice 5.2 installed; all the updates for the OS and libs installed. Fast, down and dirty. TTL - 3 hours (two for XP) -- Sat Dec 21 09:00:00 EST 2002 9:00am up 56 min, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.13 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Recently deceased blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan comes to after his death. He sees Jimi Hendrix sitting next to him, tuning his guitar. Holy cow, he thinks to himself, this guy is my idol. Over at the microphone, about to sing, are Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and the bassist is the late Barry Oakley of the Allman Brothers. So Stevie Ray's thinking, Oh, wow! I've died and gone to rock and roll heaven. Just then, Karen Carpenter walks in, sits down at the drums, and says: 'Close to You'. Hit it, boys! -- Told by Penn Jillette, of magic/comedy duo Penn and Teller Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
Hey guys! I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be the correct steps? Insert the first CD, Reboot the system, Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up, Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press [Enter] Anyone know of anything to look out for? How will the notebook know to prompt for duel boot? Thanks Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
I will assume that installing Mandrake 9 and Win2K is the same as with WinXP. I also have a notebook, 2 partitions (20 and 10 Gb), the first one for XP alone and the second one with 3 logicalo drives: a 1 Gb FAT drive, and the rest for MDK9 (8.75 for EXT2 on / and 256Mb for SWAP) After installing XP i booted from the MDK9 CD, selecting the Expert installation, choose the packages that I wanted to be installed, set the Lilo boot manager and that's about it. I now have a dual boot laptop. Hope this helps. Adolfo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Belkie, Dan Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook Hey guys! I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be the correct steps? Insert the first CD, Reboot the system, Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up, Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press [Enter] Anyone know of anything to look out for? How will the notebook know to prompt for duel boot? Thanks Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
On Thursday 19 December 2002 18:12, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hey guys! I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be the correct steps? Insert the first CD, Reboot the system, Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up, Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press [Enter] Anyone know of anything to look out for? How will the notebook know to prompt for duel boot? Thanks Dan It's even easier than that. First defrag your Window$ (Do that!), then boot with the cdrom.don't even choose F1, just click install and let yourself be led through the installation. Mandrake will resize your Window$ without harming it. If it refuses to do so, don't try to force it...come back here and ask for help. I don't know about the 9.0 install-cd but lnx4win hasn't been fully functional for a long time. Don't use it IMHO. By installing lilo (default) in the mbr you'll get your dualboot. Be sure to back-up important files though!! You never know!:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:12 pm, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hey guys! I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be the correct steps? Insert the first CD, Reboot the system, Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up, Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press [Enter] Anyone know of anything to look out for? How will the notebook know to prompt for duel boot? Thanks Dan Dan: lnx4win? I thought this died when 8.0 was released. It was aimed at Windows users who wanted to experiment with Linux without experiencing the thrill of repartitioning, and it was never intended to be anything except a tool for experimentation. I never tried it, but I understand that it was glacially slow and somewhat buggy, and, in marketing-speak, turned out to be an answer to a question that nobody had asked. My 2 cents: Set aside some of that extra 20 gb for Mandrake and do a normal installation. Mandrake will take care of the dual-booting. (I know how to do it with win9x, but not 2K; I'll leave that to others.) One thought: Linux can read and write to FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, but it can't write to the NT-based filesystems native to win2k. Therefore, create a common FAT32 partition for data that you want to share between Mandrake and windows. You'll have to reconfigure some of your windows apps to do this. An additional benefit will be simplified backups. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook
--- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan: lnx4win? I thought this died when 8.0 was released. It was aimed at Windows users who wanted to experiment with Linux without experiencing the thrill of repartitioning, and it was never intended to be anything except a tool for experimentation. I never tried it, but I understand that it was glacially slow and somewhat buggy, and, in marketing-speak, turned out to be an answer to a question that nobody had asked. Lol!! :) My 2 cents: Set aside some of that extra 20 gb for Mandrake and do a normal installation. Mandrake will take care of the dual-booting. (I know how to do it with win9x, but not 2K; I'll leave that to others.) One thought: Linux can read and write to FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, but it can't write to the NT-based filesystems native to win2k. Therefore, create a common FAT32 partition for data that you want to share between Mandrake and windows. The no man's land. Yep, that's exactly what I've got here. Cept it's a whole separate drive. Handy for archiving and saving /etc and /home data when you bungee jump into a new version number. L8r, LX __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
