Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question
Thanks for the advice. I'll order the pizza pick up the wine, drop off the kids and do the expert install. Michael On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:27 am, ET wrote: > > well... since it is _your_ wife my advice would be; get a pizza, a > bottle of wine, put the kids over at grammy's, give her the first cd, look > her in the eyes, tell her to "put it in" but do the "expert" as oppossed to > recomended, and set up the partitions you want, without hosen the winparts, > and you won't really need to have wine, you can prolly fix the thing from > accessing the hosed win-drive from inside kde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question
On Friday 01 November 2002 01:48 pm, Michael wrote: > After 4 years of trying to get my wife to try Linux, I finally have the > chance. Her Win98 box is hosed and she can't even get in in safe mode to > fix it because of some security login feature she installed. I told her if > she had Linux on there too, she could at least access it via wine. > > My question is: it has been 4 years since I did any dual boot installs and > i want this to go right. Will the basic 8.2 install handle the > repartioning and boot information itself, or should I do a custom install? > I wanted her to do most of it by herself just to see how easy Linux > installs. > > TIA, > > Michael well... since it is _your_ wife my advice would be; get a pizza, a bottle of wine, put the kids over at grammy's, give her the first cd, look her in the eyes, tell her to "put it in" but do the "expert" as oppossed to recomended, and set up the partitions you want, without hosen the winparts, and you won't really need to have wine, you can prolly fix the thing from accessing the hosed win-drive from inside kde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question
hi, i have a feeling that to repartition and stuff you will need to do an 'expert' install, any auto allocation by the installer will not take into account any partitions you wish to create for win, though it might leave existing ones alone, if you are going to wipe the win to reinstall then formatting them in the installer can't hurt, of course if you have something like partition magic or acronis then you can create ypur partitions beforehand and then install mandrake bascule On Friday 01 Nov 2002 6:48 pm, Michael wrote: > After 4 years of trying to get my wife to try Linux, I finally have the > chance. Her Win98 box is hosed and she can't even get in in safe mode to > fix it because of some security login feature she installed. I told her if > she had Linux on there too, she could at least access it via wine. > > My question is: it has been 4 years since I did any dual boot installs and > i want this to go right. Will the basic 8.2 install handle the > repartioning and boot information itself, or should I do a custom install? > I wanted her to do most of it by herself just to see how easy Linux > installs. > > TIA, > > Michael -- Worlds of belief, she [Susan] thought. Just like oysters. A little piece of shit gets in and then a pearl grows around it. (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
