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I've had a DualBoot going with Win2k/Mandrake 9.1 for a while now. I was wondering how "easy" it would be for me to remove Mandrake 9.1 and replace it with another verison of Linux (I was thinking Slackware). I have 2 drives in the computer, one is completely Win2k and the other is Mandrake. Would I be able to format the one with Mandrake, remove the bootloader, and just boot up an install CD for Slackware? Is it going to be that easy, or am I being unrealistic?
It's actually easier.
Slack will format your drive for you, no need to format ahead of time.
Just be carefull to format the right drive during the Slack install and make
sure to add your win2k during the lilo config.
So all I would have to do is boot from the Slackware CD, format the correct drive and I should be fine? Would I need to do anything about the bootloader? Or does Slack overwrite that as well?
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