Which comes first?

[cpals]

Alright, I am running WinXP right now and am going to be reformatting everything just to clean it all out. I have two partitions. The main partition will run WinXP and the second one will have Mandrake Linux (is this the best one for user friendliness and stability?). What I want to know is which OS should I install first? WinXP or Linux?

Also, has anyone used BeOS? I can never get it to load from the cd rom or get it to install to my partitions...

Thanks!

 

[poppasp1ce]

Doesn't really matter unless you have a boot manager preference. If you install XP first, then when you install Linux it will see you have XP and install LILO to allow you to choose which OS to boot. Likewise, if you install Linux first, then when you install XP it will see you have Linux and install OS Loader to allow you to choose which OS to boot.

 

[NiPeng]

<< Likewise, if you install Linux first, then when you install XP it will see you have Linux and install OS Loader to allow you to choose which OS to boot. >>


It does? A Microsoft OS ?

 

[cpals]

^bump^

 

[fastman]

Here's the Anandtech FAQ, this should help.