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Linux Mandrake 7.2/Windows 2000 Dual boot

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Blayze

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Ok I am going to have to reinstall my Windows 2000 on my Athlon machine because the VIA drivers messed up during install (long story 🙂)

Anyway my question is I have a 30 gig hard drive and will be using Mandrake 7.2 and Windows 2000 on this drive. Does the linux boot partition still have to come at the front of the drive if the drive is over 8 gigs or has this been fixed in 7.2?

I will be using multiple partitions for my Windows 2000 install as well (games, mp3s, etc...)

Also what would be the easiest way to setup this drive if I decided to use NTFS for my Windows 2000 install.


Blayze 😀
 
No, you dont have to worry about the 1024 cylinder issue with Mandrake 7.1 and later. Does not really matter what OS you install first. You can have either LILO/ GRUB as your boot mananger or modify the NT boot mananger to dual boot.

Rain
 
if the problem is gone how should I go about partitioning my disks

I was thinking about using the Windows 2000 CD for the partitioning of the NTFS drives and leave free space so that the Mandrake CD could partition that.

Would this work?
 
I have a win2k/mdk 7.2 dual boot and here is how i have my 40 gig drive set up:

partition 1: NTFS, windows2000, 8 gigs
partition 2: FAT32, no OS, pretty much programs and storage, 25 gigs
partition 3: Linux Ext2, 6 gigs
partition 4: Linux Swap, 250 megs

MDK 7.2 is installed on the 3rd partition (obviously), and i use lilo as the boot manager. all i had to do was add a line to the lilo.conf file to allow the first partition to be a boot option. everything works fine, hope this helped... btw, i used partition magic 6.0 after having just the first 2 partitions to make the 3rd and 4th
 
Thanks Raincity

I will not have a chance to do this until Thursday.
using Laptop now and backing up info off the 30 gig onto my Celeron 2 machine
 
No problem, Mandrake is easy to set up so you should have no problems. If you run into any issues, dont be afraid to holler for help.

Rain
 
thanks again

I do have partition magic but the version I have is old and does not support Win2k 🙁


Joemonkey

I noticed that you have only 2 partitions counting your swap space on your hard drive. I thought that Linux had to have 3 partitions with the boot part getting its own partition. I know this how the auto install setup configs Mandrake.

Is it ok to just go with 2 partitions? and if so how do you do set them up in the partition manager in the linux install?

 
i didn't set them up in the linux install... i used partition magic 6 to partition the 6 gigs in the Linux Ext2 file system, and the 250 megs for the Linux Swap file system. at install, i just pointed the installer to these 2 partitions, and it pretty much said "ok, cool, we don't have to reformat these." lilo comes up as the boot manager at first with no option to boot to win2k, but you can add a few lines to the lilo.conf file to give the win2k partition an option on the lilo menu at bootup. if and when you do this, if any problems occur, send me an ICQ message or something and i'll help as much as i can!
 
You don't have to have a dedicated partition just for the boot part. Also, 250 megs for a linux swap I believe is overkill. Linux manages it's resources MUCH better than windows. I've set my linux swap for only 50 megs.
 
well, losing 250 megs on a 40 gig hd won't bother me too much... i'm a linux n00b and just seemed like more was better. i only boot up to linux about once every couple weeks or so anyway.
 
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