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Installing Mandrake 8.0

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by trippin 1 view

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Hi !
I need some advice here, I am currently running winME on the primary h.d which has left 1.89gb of space and the second h.d which has 2 partition which partition 1 is 883mb free the second is 2.53gb free .. i would like to install Mandrake.
and to create a dual boot, which drive shld i install on, and which h.d should the mandrake be sitting on ?
If installation should fail, will it affect my MBR? failure to boot up?
thanks..!

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by dmiles

See the following sites
1)www.opengl.org
2)www.linuxquestions.org

Also you may get some info from Linux in TechRepublic section of Linux

by mike o

First, if you want to use that current setup, you best consult Mandrake's installation documentation and see about partition placement. However, I would _highly_ recommend keeping it simple by putting all of your Me data on one disk and all of your Linux data on a second. That way if your first hard drive crashes, you don't lose both OSes.

Besides, with your current install you don't have a lot of room for Linux. If you install most of the stuff off the CD, you're already talking 1.5Gb of data.

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