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Dressler:
Hello!
I have RH 7.2 installed and WinXP (Call me a heretic!)

7.2 doesn't work because of well a long story, I posted about it before.

I want to install Mandrake 9.1 or whatever it is....

I NEED to keep my WINDOWS PARTITION!


In short- how do I install Mandrake and make a dual boot with Mandrake and XP?


Also, I downloaded this Security-Enchanced Linux from the NSA- does this work with Mandrake??
Thanks!

Dressler:
A PROBLEM!

I downloaded the mandrake inst. ISO file (Using XP) and burned it to a CD with the correct settings...

The computer does not see the CD upon boot!!
But in Windows I can click it and I could possibly choose install...with God knows what consequences....

This is all a bit to handle, please help me!

Calum:
that's all a bit more than i have ever done while trying to install mandrake. are you certain you used correct settings and what software did you use, it is my suspicion that you didn't set the CD to be bootable, or else that you need to go into your BIOS settings and enable your computer to boot from a CD (if you have other bootable CDs that boot fine (note NOT autorun CDs) then you don't need to do this of coursE)

as for consequences of installing mandrake i am fairly confident that it should all be okay. i would back up your windows stuff first of course, but to be honest mandrake's installer is easy and will enable you to not delete any of your windows stuff. Your biggest issue is going to be trying to access stuff off of a NTFS partition in linux and/or setting up the bootloader, and for all i know that last issue may have been fixed by now.
Anybody else got any experience with using grub as a bootloader between linux and winXP?

edit: make sure and do the expert installation when you install mandrake it likes to hide options from you otherwise.

[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: hopelessly outnumbered ]

KernelPanic:
Dresser i'm sure we can still fix that damn RH7.2 install!

KernelPanic:
If you do need to install Mandrake it should all go very smoothly.

As Calum said take the expert option.
All you need to do is reformat your old RedHat Linux partitions and tell mandrake to install onto them. If this is what you wanted to do?....
Your Windows partitions will be kept.

Mandrake will configure the boodloader for you adding a boot option for WinXP (ick). Booting WinXP with GRUB/Lilo is fine as it uses the same bootloader as win2k.

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