Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question

2002-11-04 Thread Michael
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

Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question

2002-11-02 Thread ET
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

Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question

2002-11-01 Thread bascule
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 for