It is true that Workstation wipes certain areas of the disks, but, for example, if
you have an active Winblows partition, it will not disturb it. On the other hand,
Server installation will take ALL disk space and use it.
Civileme
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I also use a second drive, just for Linux ... a 3.2. I have a 23 meg
startup partition, 129 meg swap file partition, and the rest is for all the
Linux programs and various files. I used Partition Magic to create these
partitions. After creating the partitions I merely booted the Mandrake CD
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Actually, i think the workstation installation does that as well (qipes out
paritions and then creates new ones). I have never used the server nor
workstation installation method but I thought that I read it in the manual
somewhere.
On 14-Jul-99 Civ
OK
You have selected install. One way to avoid the problem is to choose
"Workstation" and let the installer worry about the unformatted or non-windows
partitions. The second way is to select CUSTOM and use Disk Druid.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES select SERVER, because this installation wipes you
