Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-15 Thread Marshall Lake
Thanks to everyone for your help concerning this subject. -- Marshall Lake -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mlake.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Stephen Kuhn wrote: > There are "demo" versions of Partition Magic floating > around - you can always try the PowerQuest website for it - > luckily, I've got Partition Magic complete sets from > version 3 upwards to version 8 (grin) - just the luck of > the industry I'm in, I reckon... and there's

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 22:29, Tsur, Oren wrote: > Hi > > Just a quick note! Although partition magic is extremely powerful and easy > to use, > it can cost you a buck or two. There are many alternative including 'line > command' option which you can find instructions to in WinXP help. Also try > K

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-14 Thread Tsur, Oren
...). Good luck Oren -Original Message- From: Douglas B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2003 10:45 To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:47, Eileen Lopp wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-14 Thread Douglas B.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:47, Eileen Lopp wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marshall Lake > > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:06 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing > > > > > > > > I have version 9.0 of Ma

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread Eileen Lopp
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marshall Lake > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing > > > > I have version 9.0 of Mandrake. My hardware is an HP Media > Center 873n. > > I'm having

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:05, Marshall Lake wrote: > I have version 9.0 of Mandrake. My hardware is an HP Media Center 873n. > > I'm having a problem getting Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 to co-exist. I > understand it's better to have Windows already installed when you try to > install Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread g
Marshall Lake wrote: Besides the above possibilities, is there something else I can do? fips will reduce a fat32. do not know about other oos type. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - dis

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread Brian
I am not all that Linux saavy, but I do knwo a thing or two about Windows. Since it looks like you need to reinstall XP anyways, you may want to start from there.  During XP setup you can delete existing partitions and then instead of installing XP to an empty unpartitioned hard drive (which w

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread Tsur, Oren
Hi I am no expert so if this look like rubbish to you please ignore... If you install through 'expert' you should be able to partition your disk (using diskdrak - or was it the other way around). After resizing your windows partition you should be able to install mandrake no problems. See the Demo

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 & Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-13 Thread Tsur, Oren
Hi I am no expert so if this look like rubbish to you please ignore... If you install through 'expert' you should be able to partition your disk (using diskdrak - or was it the other way around). After resizing your windows partition you should be able to install mandrake no problems. See the Demo