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Old 04-28-2002, 12:52 PM   #1
baafie
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dual booting windows 2000 and mandrake


Hi guys.

I recently acquired a copy of Mandrake Linux 8.2. My Linux experience: I used an Xwindows Linux distro in university once. Therefore, I would like to ask you how to go about installing mandrake, whilst making sure it dual boots with windows 2000 sp3.
I have five hard drive partitions: C-G, all of which are NTFS. Windows 2000 is installed on my F partition, and the boot files are on my C drive.
Now I want Mandrake installed on my G drive. Do I need to convert this partition to FAT32? (The same question for my C drive)
If i install Mandrake on my G drive, will there still be a boot manager that allows me to choose an operating system to boot from at startup?

Thank you.
 
Old 04-28-2002, 01:04 PM   #2
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Will need to format your partition for linux, not fat32
Choose the expert install, not hard. I tend to like ext3 for linux.
Could choose to put LILO on you master boot record (MBR) I have not had a problem with mine, but some peeps have.
Gives me a choice to boot to XP or Linux (Mandrake 8.1)
 
Old 04-28-2002, 01:39 PM   #3
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I assume the Mandrake setup includes a format applet?
What is LILO?
 
Old 04-28-2002, 02:29 PM   #4
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What is LILO?
stands for LInux LOader. it is a boot loader that comes standard almost with all linux distro's..
 
  


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