reavercop

Okay thx all I partition magic my drives and it took six hours LOL to all the resizing for some reason but at the end I got 15 gig out of it in 3 different partitions 1 for linux boot,linux swap and 5 gig free space for future linux installs from scratch. Wow it amazed me how easy is mandrake linux is all point and click only if I could play latest games on it I would ditch MS Os for sure but for time being I would dual boot.. Now I wanna learn some shell commands where do I learn them eg ,mounting,copy,format etc and some background knowledge. thx all who replied appreciated a lot.

yeah drive H would be good I can allocate 10 gig for maybe 15 gig....if things go well I put another harddisk as well I have one spare ...drive H only got 1 game installed anyway I uninstall it and delete partition after that do I let linux do its job on this partition ?

Yes you only talked about FAT file system I only got NTFS on all 4 partitions 3 primary and 1 extended logical drive...all NTFS formatted will it be okay? Cheers for any help mate once I go through 1 intallation successfully then I will be okay I guess it just the first try that is scary ...

Hi all I have got mandrake version 10 now and my comp has currently windows 2000 installed. 80 gig hard drive partitioned C(9.76 gig),F(19.5 gig),G(19.5gig),H(25.6 gig) Partition C,F,G are primary partition and H is extended partition all formatted with NTFS V5.0. So I gather I have to reformat my drive, drive G is boot drive and drive C is system drive in windows terms.. So how do I reformat this drive to make use of dual boot effectively, does reformatting is the only option I have? I am happy with windows 2000 Os its rock solid unlike all other MS OS but I wanna give linux a go and learn a bit from it...and thats the whole purpose of all this.. So whats the best way to dual boot above 2 Os's with minimal fuss.. mandrake official release v10 and windows 2000. Cheers