Mandrake 8.1 w/ xp

quicksilver · 02-22-2002, 06:37 PM

Hello,

I have 2 hard drives. The first master hard drive has xp (NTFS), i want to install mandrake 8.1 on the second one. Is there anything I should know before doing so? Has anybody attempted this? Will LILO detect xp, because i have lot of important documents in the first hard drive and i don't want to screw that up.

Thanks.

vance · 03-02-2002, 01:04 PM

i installed mandrake on a machine with 4 hard drives, all of them ntfs except the one i put the linux on. i didn't run into any problems with lilo finding my win partitions and setting up everything just fine. it was win2k, dont know if that makes that much difference. anyway, ive dumped the win partitions and changed over to ext3 and use only linux now; but in its day my dual booting baby didn't care what color her hair was. grin.