Mandrake 9.2 and Win2000 together

you can techinqually install either first, but the easiest order to do it in is Windows, and then Linux.

this is because the boot program for linux (lilo or grub) over writes that of windows, yet still points to windows.

otherwise the windows install will over write the boot program for linux and make linux impossible to find unless you have a boot disk.

the linux install will automatically partition an empty drive for you, it will write its own filesystems for you without anyfuss.



i have a dual boot mandrake 9.1 (installing 9.2 right after posting this ) and windowsXP machine and i have my documents shared between both OS's they are in a FAT32 partition. this is because both XP and Linux can read and write to this format.

i have a 120Gb setup and this is how i partition it.

7Gb NTFS winXP (programs and settings only)
7Gb ???? Linux (programs and settigns only)
32Gb Fat32 shared documents between linux and XP
and approx 64Gb NTFS for files i only need to read in linux, music and movies basicly.

partitioning is a personal thing so i sugest you work out how many and what programs you are gonna install in windows and adjust its partition size accordingly. for me without any documents being stored in the XP partition i have about 1.5Gb left so you can use space pretty quick. (thats without any games or anything on it either,)


Alltaken

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Thanks Alltaken and Raretech

Stelian