On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote: > Hi , > I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my > windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic > question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be > great. > > Vikrant >
Defrag your Win98 Hard Drive (Do not tick the box to 'speed up access') In your BIOS (usually accessed by hitting 'Del' during booting) Configure BIOS to Boot from CD as first boot device Reboot With Mandrake CD1 in the drive. Follow the on screen instructions Mandrake will resize your Win98 partition, create Linux partitions, install a gazillion Applications, and set up your computer to dual boot Linux and Windows. It really is quite simple. A lot easier than installing Windows IMO On line manuals can be found here :- http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 Have Fun derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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