On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Lam, Yochai wrote:
> hello !
> im intended to install linux mandrake 7.1 server on my computer.
> the computer has allready windows ME + windows NT station and windows NT
> server.
> can enyone tell me if im going to have troubles?
Probably not.
> should i install it on a FAT,NTFS, or create a new unix native partition?
> (got 8 GB raw disk area..)
That's good. It'll save you some troubles of using fips/PMagic/etc.
simply make there a large enough swap partition (make that double the size
of the memory, since you have spare space), and the rest, for a native
linux partition (I suggest usee ResierFS rather than ext2, since Mandrake
supports it, and it is considered cool;)
You can install Mandrake in a loop partition on a FAT/FAT32 partition, but
why bother?
You'll have to decide if you want to use lilo or grub to load linux.
People say grub is nicer.
You'll also have to decide if you use the NT loader the your main OS
loader (in that caase you iinstall lilo/grub on the boot sector of your
root partition) or you want to use your lilux loader as the main loader,
and in that caase you install it on the MBR, and make a boot
disk/loadlin.exe ready in caaase the next OS installation rewrites the
MBR.
Anyway, the CD also includes Mandrake's installation guide, which is
fairly useful, and will explain most of the buzzwords I usedd above.
Good luck
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Tzafrir Cohen
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