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
VVSpartition there. Do this before you install Windows. Then install
VVSWindows... [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
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