So, I'm trying to set up a dual-boot system with Mandrake 7.0, and I'm having a few... concerns. Here's the details: I have a PII-233 currently running Win98 on a 10G drive all by its lonesome. I also have a 4G drive I want to plug in & use as my Linux playground. I've played with it a little, by putting the Linux drive on the secondary controller, unplugging the Win98 drive, and installing from CD, but now I want to make it a real live dual-boot machine. I have a couple of questions about doing this, and I'm not sure which is the right one, but basically... - the Linux drive is currently loaded as /hdc and works fine by itself, but if I plug in both drives (Win98 on the primary controller & Linux on the secondary, just like it expects), and use loadln to boot Linux, it chokes on the boot. I would guess it's because there's an /hda there all of a sudden, so can I hack fstab to just make things happy & bootable? - If not, I don't mind re-loading Linux, but I do _not_ want to re-load Windoze... If I just plug both drives in, boot from CD, and do a fresh install on /hdc, is Mandrake's partitioning software sophisticated enough to _not_ squash my Win98 drive? The thought of LILO dancing around on the mbr of my primary HD, which I don't have the facilities to back up right now, just gives me the Fear... Thanks, Craig
