Mandrake killed Windows

[Brian Densmore]

I have suceesfully installed RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.0 on a Windows 98 dual
boot without incident. But be forewarned DO NOT run Windows FDISK or FORMAT on
this box EVER. It WILL destroy any LILO and BOOT data on the MBR other than
Windows 98  - WITHOUT WARNING. I also cannot attest to 7.1, You should not use
the fsck utility but the Disk Druid utility and make sure you know what your
partitions are before starting. I also recommend that you create the Windows
partition from windows and then create all the other partitions from Disk
Druid. Also don't touch the Windows partitions from Linux - why ask for trouble!

Hope this helps,
Brian

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I have
successfully installed Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4, > Red Hat 6.1, Corel
Linux OS 1.0,and Mandrake 6  in a Win98 Dual > boot configuration with no
problems whatsoever. I cannot attest > to Mandrake 7.1 as I haven't had time to
play with it. >  > Sorry,
> 
> Jeff
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> From: kclug at kclug.org
> To: kulua-l at kulua.org; kclug at kclug.org
> Cc: jeff.mccright at southernunionco.com
> Subject: kclug - Mandrake killed Windows
> Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:35PM
> 
>  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.
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>  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
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