installing Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition with fedora 2 and WinXP

Hello World!
I currently have WinXP and Fedora core 2 installed with GRUB booting the two.
I would like to install Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition.
I downloaded and burned the 3-CDs, and yet didn't installed due to fear of getting stuck!

1. I know I must have an ext3 partition for root, but should I make a partition for SWAP? or the installation takes freespace from the ext3 and makes the SWAP partition?

2. I would like that the Mandrake option will be added to GRUB's list of OS's. How do I do that?

it's certainly possible. I am running four distros on one machine and here is a sample of my grub menu.lst

title Slackware
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=788 ro
title FedoraCore
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd.img
title Ubuntu
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 vga=788 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img
title Mandrake
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 vga=788 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img


make sure you know the right path to you root folder and the right kernel and initrd.img or else you may not be able to boot into Mandrake.

I would add to that good advice, you need to know the partition of your /boot partition. check your /etc/fstab if you forget. if /boot is mentions translate it into grub speak.

If its not in your etc/fstab file then its a sub-folder of / and so you that.

the root command is to define where your /boot partition is or the sub-folder /boot is.

I am a little surprised you had no issues with FC2 and xp but have a peep at this if you like.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=237511