elder70

Thank you, it worked this time and Mandriva is up and running. I chickened out on the custom partition, didn't have a clue what I was doing, so I went for the automatic partitioning of the Windows free space. However, there is one observation, and that is there is no "Freecell" game and nothing in the repository either. I thought every self respecting system had freecell. :(

Thank you for all the help. I resized the Windows partition, followed along, and the live install started copying files. When it finished the KDE screen was in front of me. Nothing had been asked of me during the installation of the files. When I closed it and rebooted, only Windows came up. So maybe Mandriva is there but I can't get to it. Now I am confused, can anyone help with this? Thank you.

I have used linux of various distributions but I have never set up a home partition. As I now am about to install Mandriva I would like to set up the home in its own partition. Can someone help me with this please. Thank you.

It was late at night and I was rushing. :( So now I will download 2008, not that I know I can choose dual booting.

Thank you, I was hoping that was the situation.

A few days ago I dowloaded Mandriva 2007. I have a machine running Windows XP and I want it to dual boot with Mandriva. In past installations the user was asked by the linux system, at installation, if they wanted to run a dual boot system (on the same hard drive). Does this Mandriva offer that altenative? Thank you.