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Does this configuration works installing windows 2000 after FC2 have been installed?
If my HD have been partitioned, how I resize or repartition the HD ? in order to install windows 2000?

This is what I have in my HD.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hda1 * 1 203 102280 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 204 40838 20480040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 20839 61155 10239768 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 61156 155009 47302416 F W95 ext. LBA
/dev/hda5 61156 151733 45651280 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 151734 153765 1024096 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 153766 154805 524128 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 154806 155008 102280 83 Linux



File System Size Used Avail. Use % Monted on

/dev/hda5 43G 188M 41G 1 /
/dev/hda1 97M 6.0M 86M 7 /boot
none 122M 0 122M 0 /dev/shm
/dev/hda3 9.7G 6.0M 9.1G 1 /home
/dev/had 8 97M 4.1M 88M 5 /tmp
/dev/hda2 20G 2.8G 16G 15 /usr
/dev/hda6 98M 84M 851M 9 /var

thank you for the help you can give me.

Oscar Cedeño

Hi Oscar. Hmmm... I would doubt it very much. 2000 is based on NT so it would be more similar to XP. I would suggest you look up a guide that specifically discusses installing 2000 and linux.

If you need a GUI partitioning program check out Paragon Partition Manager -- it works great.

sausagejohnson, will your tips work with Mandrake 10.1 Official or a different procedure is needed? I want Win98 on a 5GB partition. Mandrake is on 8GB. Thanks.

The flavour of Linux really shouldn't matter. The principle should be the same. I used the Mandrake Community version the test release just before the final came out. But again, that shouldn't matter. Still, if you have a spare drive, clone it as a backup and give it a try.

I'm surprised this actually worked, given that Windoze always expects to be the primary OS, installed to the very first 'main' partition.....

And if it doesn't get its own way, it throws the biggest tantrums you could possibly imagine.