Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 22, 2005 09:05 AM
I setup dual boot WindowsXP Linux on a cheap machine over the weekend. I doesn't really has any challenge if you want to keep it simple:
Choose the custom partition option, Resize the Windows_C drive with Mandrake to create space for Linux, install Mandrake packages and it and install the Linux boot loader on the MBR. I have read in many places that te Linux Boot loader should be on the first sector of the boot partition, tried it, and Linux did not show (one could boot in rescue mode and fix it, but why take the extra steps?).
There are more details on my machine and the constraints that I had on my blog page at <a href="http://www.netforall.com/servlets/ShowSite?reqtyp" title="netforall.com">http://www.netforall.com/servlets/ShowSite?reqtyp</a netforall.com><nobr>e<wbr></nobr> =showblog&admin=Poly
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 22, 2005 09:05 AMChoose the custom partition option, Resize the Windows_C drive with Mandrake to create space for Linux, install Mandrake packages and it and install the Linux boot loader on the MBR. I have read in many places that te Linux Boot loader should be on the first sector of the boot partition, tried it, and Linux did not show (one could boot in rescue mode and fix it, but why take the extra steps?).
There are more details on my machine and the constraints that I had on my blog page at <a href="http://www.netforall.com/servlets/ShowSite?reqtyp" title="netforall.com">http://www.netforall.com/servlets/ShowSite?reqtyp</a netforall.com><nobr>e<wbr></nobr> =showblog&admin=Poly
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