Ok, I have MDK10 O and am starting from scratch (restarting actually, wiped my HD and an beginning anew). Here is the situation: I have a 60 gig HD in my laptop with vanilla windows xp on it atm. I want to set up a dual booting system (when I tried doing it myself, weird things happened on windows such as slowdown when I tried to scroll through web pages). How do I get mandrake to take some free space (all that's on there is windows and CD burning software atm) and use 35 or 40 gigs of it to create all the linux stuff? If I do this will I have to reinstall the CD software and drivers for the internal wireless etc etc? I would hope not because the internal wireless is a bizatch to set up lol. Ok, thanks all.

first tip ask to ur friends if they have the 2 boots disks of partition magic. Once in the partition magic select u r window$ partition and resize it (MUST HAVE ABOUT 1GB or more free ) ( Attention make a backup of ur files!!!) then select the empy partion make it as a logical partition and then format it in ext3 let some space for the swap and format it in swap (2x ur memory size eg: if u got 128MB so make let 256 MBfor the swap( virtual memory!)
OR..

during the mdk10.0's installation the wizard will ask u to select the partition to where u will install then u can do as i wrote up here resize c: make the ext3 partition and at last make ur swap partion....

After the installation the wizard will ask u to confirm ur hardware configuration there is a boot configuration it will instal automaticly or u can modifie it with the wizard....when all of this is done reboot ur laptop and boot to windows to see if the boot works correctly...

And all this is done....

have fun!!!