Hi
I just installed a 15 gig harddrive and made four partitions with
linux fdisk and installed Mandrake 7 on the first partition. As long as
you keep your boot partition below cylinder 1024 you shouldn't have a
problem. Probably your bios must see the whole drive for this to work.
Hope
Hi Alan and All,
I decided to go ahead and spend some more $money$ on my Linux Mandrake
distribution, which I have learned was pretty much inevitable if I had any
hopes of getting it installed within my time parameters.
I think it is important that I mention here for clarity's sake, that if
Hi, I am now on my sixth day since I went out and purchased the brand new
Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete OS, and I still do not have it installed on my
system, I only have four days left before I run out of time at the Software
store to return it for a full refund.
I am going through install h*ll
b/webyou need to have two things before the 1024th cylinder.
1) your primary windows partition (it'll be drive C:) needs to
end before the 1024th cylinder (you can have another windows
partition that uses whatever other disc space left and it'll be
drive D:).
2) a small (16-24 megs) linux
b/web,
I will tell you how I set up my machine and hopefully this will help. I tried
setting up a small partition for the /boot information, a partition for
wind'ohs, and one for linux. As my /home directory is on another drive
this proved to be somewhat confusing. In the end, what I did was
b/web,
I used the dos fdisk to split the disk originally. Then I used a standard
format program to format the drive. It would be good if diskdrake was
available for general use but I don't think you can run it outside of a linux
install.
After Windows was installed I ran the setup for linux and
