Mandrake killed Windows

[Brian Kelsay]

Your problem may be that you chose a Workstation or Server install.  What
happens with most Distros is that they think you want the computer for Linux
only at this point.  They are simplified installs with pre-selected
partition sizes so that you don't have to think about how large to make /,
/var, /usr, /home, etc.  Next time choose Custom install and create your own
partitions.  Also, now that Windows is wiped, just delete all your
partitions and create a smaller one to install Windows on w/ fdisk instead
of resizing the partitions.

Brian

P.S. I did the same thing once.

-----Original Message-----
From: SFIKE at twa.com [mailto:SFIKE at twa.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 12:23 PM
To: kulua-l at kulua.org; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: kclug - Mandrake killed Windows

 I tried to install Mandrake 7.1 in a dual-boot configuration with Windows
98. Unfortunetly, Mandrake over-wrote Windows and took over the hard drive
for itself. Not good.

 Mandrakes partitioning tool, in the installation process, is confusing at
best
and very inadequate at worst. Especially for a novice user without
documentation to go by as in my case. I didn't have a clue to what was to be
done when I got to this step in the installation process, and Mandrake's
partitioning tool was no help. I ended up doing what I thought was correct
and
somehow ended up letting Mandrake take over the entire hard drive for
itself.

 At least Corel Linux won't do this without giving you fair warning. Corel
Linux is the only distro that I've been able to successully install with
Windows in a dual-boot configuration, so Corel gets a pat on the back and an
"at-a-boy" from me for that!

 I was wondering if someone could help guide me throught this difficult and
confusing step in installing Mandrake in a dual-boot config on my hard
drive?

Thanks,
Scott