post 1024 cylinders unpartitioned installation?

eliteskills · 02-14-2005, 03:49 PM

My QuestioN:

Anyway to install mandrake on the unpartitioned space after my 15 gig windows partition?

History:

Wiped hard drive.

Installed XP but left 10 gigs for linux unpartitioned.

Installed all programs.

Kicking myself for not making a partition before the windows partition that could be a linux boot loader.

amosf · 02-14-2005, 04:00 PM

Depends on the age of the machine. Considering it's running XP I guess it's not that obsolete.

Modern machines and linux OS's are not limitted by the 1024 barrier.

eliteskills · 02-14-2005, 04:09 PM

Thanks, that's encouraging to hear.

I'm installing linux through the mandrake installer. It worked before except the only difference is that this time I have linux as NTFS and windows is the first partition. The laptop is only 2 years old so it's not yet a paper weight by my standards.

I'll keep trying.