elder70

Are you sure you didn't just boot the One CD to run the live version of Mandriva, but never actually asked it to install? It might have _seemed_ like it was copying files, but running the One CD just copies things into memory, it doesn't touch the hard drive. Only when you double-click the desktop icon "Install" and go through the several steps does it actually install anything.

 

If you think you really did install, tell us which CD or DVD you used and more details about what it asked you during the install.

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.

Do you mean 2008? If not, why are you going for 2007 and not the latest version?

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

If you've got Windows on the machine, and there is spare space on the hard disk for installing Linux, then yes, the new version will allow you to dual boot. Just make sure you don't overwrite the whole disk when partitioning for Mandriva.

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.