Rubbish,,, there is no reason at all not to dual boot XP and Mdk 8.2...
I am doing it right now, running on my M700 compaq laptop of all places.. it was very simple to do.. 1. start with a hard disk with no partitions, (run fdisk from a win98 boot floppy and remove all partitions.) 2. Boot from the XP CD, and follow the prompts, it will ask you about creating partitions, I made 2 for windows using half the drive and left the rest of the drive unpartitioned for linux. (The first partition I selected in XP setup for format for NTFS, the second I left alone for now, (later in XP (or Mandrake) you can format that with Fat32.) 3. Finish the XP install, load all your drivers and such and bobs your uncle.. shut your machine down. 4. Boot from disk 1 of the Mandrake CD's.. (I only have download edition, and thats fine.) follow the prompts, when you get to the disk partitioning section of the mandrake install, the NTFS part of your drive will not be listed, thats great.. partiton mandrake in the rest of the drive as you would normally, and format and install, everything else you can select defaults and it will all go well.. piece of cake, (And this was the my first ever attempt at dual booting.) my partition structure looks like this: 6.4 gig hard disk. (measurements approx.) part 1. => 4 Gig NTFS for XP. Part 2. => 400MB Fat32. (so both linux and XP can share files in here.) part 3. => 150mb Linux Swap. (I have 280mb of ram, so the swap is small.) part 4. => EXT3 / partition. (under two gig so I don't split / up any more) give it a go, its easy... rgds Franki. PS,,, remember, you must install XP first... MUST!!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP Scott wrote: >I've been looking all over for info about dual booting M 8.2 and windows XP. >The different stuff I've found doesn't seem very consistent. Can anyone help >me out or point me to a good tutorial? >Thanks, >SW > > > > > > Firstly the boxed versions usually come with all the relevant stuff you need. You might consider buying one from mandrake store if you havene't already. Otherwise why don't you list your problems here on this list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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