This time I did a full install, with 4 linux partitions, got a bootdisk, and
it works. But, when i was done the install, i deleted everything except
windows from grub. What are the default choices and the commands to run
them? (My partitions are windows, linux/, linux/home, linux/boot, swap, or
Richard Garand wrote:
Yesterday i tried to install mandrake, but with problems that got worse
every time i tried to fix them, i had to repartition my disk and reinstall
windows. Here's everything i remember, can anyone help me with these
problems?
The first time i tried to install
Anyone who is tempted to call this post off-topic is invited to
observe that I am talking about recovering from a problem which
sometimes arises during the Linux installation process.
In W95 three or four years ago I stumbled upon what seems to me
a particularly simple way to fix Windows
Before reformating the hard disk, make just one partition for Win, but don't take the
whole HD, leave the space you need for Linux unpartitioned. This way you won't resize
your windows partition to make space for Linux. I don't know if this can avoid the
problem you had, but at least you won't
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry,
keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured..
Anyone who is tempted to call this post off-topic is invited to
observe that I am talking about recovering from
Would this cause the grub problem and destroy the windows registry? There
were only 2 problems (in getting the operating systems to cooperate): grub
wouldn't boot windows and something (during the install?) destroyed my
registry. If i know what did this and how to avoid these problems, i'll
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:24 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry,
keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured..
This might work, but what will happen if all the registry files are gone?
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