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Ok im ready to go to Linux, I need to know something though....

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lazygamer:
Ah yes, I think I get this now. All I need to do is put my money where my mouth is and put Linux on, but of course im going to be formatting my harddrives, and to do that you have to back stuff up...

voidmain:
That's the nice thing about it.  You don't need any money to get and install Linux.

Lloydr:
the onlything really special about that mandrake gaming edition crap is that it includes The Sims.....mandrake is good but it's more of a RedHat Linux for dummies.....for a noob i would recommend mandrake and then later or at same time try out RedHat......Redhat has been and will stay my favorite OS out there......RedHat 7.3 Valhalla.....lata

lazygamer:
Ok almost ready to start backing up.

I have one(hopefully the last) big question though.

Should I create my wind0ze partitions(XP and '98) first(leaving my 8GB harddrive unpartitioned), and then out of Windows(or "shutting down to dos") install Linux(and have Mandrake partition my 8GIG)?

Or perhaps I put Win 95(which has DOS) and install Mandrake from dos. My Windows 98 is the upgrade edition.

So there's no real disadvantage to putting all your Windows stuff on first right?

Oh and what about that boot stuff, can Mandrake easily share my Windows boot menu, or do I need to put Grub on? If I put Grub on, won't that prevent me from getting into Win98/XP(because I wouden't know how to hook Grub up to it)?

voidmain:
Your first thought is the best.  You want to install all your Windows OSs first and get them booting the way you want.  Leave the second drive unpartitioned for Linux.  Stick the CD in the drive and then boot from your CD-ROM and kick back, you shouldn't have any trouble.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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