Mandrake 10 and XP Home

Jayhawker · #1 July 16th, 2004, 01:30 AM

Hi everyone, I have been reading your forums for about 3 weeks now and finally signed up.

Anyway I have read about dual booting but I can't seem to find, or think I have found, any thing that makes sense for my choice of distro. There was a nice Red Hat 9 installation thread, but I don't have Red Hat 9.

My configuration is as follows:

I have an 80 GB hdd. I do have access to a spare 12GB hard drive, if that's the better route. Anyway, I have two partitions on there right now. A 5GB music partition, and a 75GB (not really but you know what i mean) for Windows XP.

So what would be the best idea on installing.

(I have tried Mandrake on my other computer however, LILO wouldn't load XP and so I had to do a clean install (since the bios isn't very good as the puter is old)

Any help is appriciated.

- Jayhawker -

Jayhawker · #2 July 19th, 2004, 04:24 AM

Anyone?

linuxrevolt · #3 August 7th, 2004, 06:35 PM

I would suggest going to linuxquestions.org on this. I'm doing the same thing to my computer and got all my answers over there. Its one of my favorite linux forums.

By the way what I'm doing is setting up two hard drives one will be for my Operating Systems and the other for storage. I did that on my old computer with windows 98se and mandrake 9.1 it worked great with the lilo boot manager.

Mandrake is super new user friendly. I'm still using it, but I'm upgrading to 10.

Later!!

Ryan450 · #4 August 12th, 2004, 10:30 PM

you got both operating systems to use the same Hard drive/partition as space? how did you do that? what filesystem did you use for the storage? (can both operating systems read/write to it just fine?)

**smurfy** · #5 August 15th, 2004, 12:32 PM

A shared storage partition should be FAT32. Windows (obviously) can read and write to it. Linux can read & write to it just as easily as long is it is mounted (and most distros should auto mount any FAT32 partition they find on the disk at time of install).
There are tools that will allow you to access an Ext2Fs partition from within Windows (Paragon Ext2FS Anywhere for example) but it's far easier just to make a seperate Fat32 partition.

linuxrevolt · #6 August 15th, 2004, 04:23 PM

Sorry for the confusion but thats not what I was doing with my box. I had both OS's on the same drive but I had a few different partitions. I had the fat32 for 98SE and then I had all the Linux partions (Main and Swap) seperately. I ran LILO at boot.

Peace!!