Having been an Ubuntu user for a while, and hitting some problems, followed by reading good things about Mandriva - I thought I'd give it a go.
Downloaded the ISO and burned to a disk, booted - and got to the desktop - and I have to say my first impressions were good. So - time to install, and here's where my problems start.
I have 2 SATA HD's - 250Gig each. Windows is on the first, with a couple of NTFS partitions on the second. The first 100Gb on disk 2 is free and available for the linux install. With Ubuntu - I had no problem with this.
However, Mandriva complains that the partition table is too corrupted and kindly offers to wipe the disk. The reported size of the disk is 490Gb - which suggests it thinks I have a RAID setup (I don't - they are JBOD).
How can I install to my free space on disk 2 without screwing up my existing Win installation (and the data on the backend 150Gb on disk 2 - which is kinda important to me).
TIA
Edit: Config: MB Abit KN9Ultra (RAID disabled at BIOS), AMD Athlon X2 6400, ATI X1950GT, 2GIG PC 6400 @ 800Mhz, 2 x 250Gig SATA HD (with install space for LInux at the start of disk two - grub is on disk one), 2x SATA DVD-RW. The partition table should show sda1 Windows, sda2 NTFS, sda3 NTFS, sdb1 Ext 3, sdb2 swap, sdb3 NTFS, sdb4 NTFS(scratch partition for temp, Windows pagefile etc)