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09-03-2003, 10:37 AM
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Mandrake and XP how to dual boot?
Hi Guys,
I recently bought one hard disk 40GB to install Mandrake and XP or W2K pro what first should I do? Should I create partition C: and D: using Win98 bootable disk and format C: (NTFS) then install XP or Mandrake first? Could someone help me the good steps to do so. Thanks a lot for your valuable input Regards, henry
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09-03-2003, 10:47 AM
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I would recommend that you use the XP / W2K pro CD to boot up and create partitions for those that you require for XP. Leave the space for Mandrake (the sum total of all partitions for Mandrake - including swap) as unpartitioned space. Then install XP/2K. Once that is done, boot to Mandrake setup using Mandrake CDs and install to the unpartitioned space. Either way (with or without Linux) XP/2K has no clue of the existence of any other nonMS OS. So you might as well leave it blank. This is assuming that you will not use Mandrake install/Linux FDISK to create a MS partition like FATx.
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09-04-2003, 07:43 PM
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get paratition amgic, if you cant find that get paratition magic(joke on my spelling)
I have been using it for a long time and it makes life a lot easier, it comes with boot magic, for controlling which partition to boot from. Make the back up disks it wants you to for boot magic! |
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09-14-2003, 10:07 PM
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statica is correct,setup the partition and install xp,leave at least 5gigs for mandrake,boot with mandrake cd and it will work fine
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09-14-2003, 10:41 PM
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5 gigs would be enough for mandrake , but allow more for future software and file storeing space, I used 20 gig for linux.
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09-19-2003, 07:42 AM
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Does it matter which OPS is first when using Mandrake/Linux, with XP?
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09-19-2003, 07:43 AM
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sorry, Thats supposed to be OS not OPS.
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09-19-2003, 08:37 AM
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xp must be installed and running good first
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