photoworks Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 I have a Dell inspiron 4150 with windows xp professionnal already installed on it and i would like to install Mandrake 10.0 on it without losing windows. How can i do that ? i must confess that i am at a loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 (edited) Sounds like you mostly want to dual-boot. This will allow you to have both Windows and Mandrake on 1 computer. You can click here to get to the FAQ that will guide you thrue this. Hope this helps you get what you want, Eventually and hopefully you will post again when you want to install Mandrake no Windows -Luis Edited July 27, 2004 by Luis101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoworks Posted July 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 well, i already have windows installed on my machine. Is there not a way that i can add Linux (version 10.0, instead of 9.1 as stated in the guide). i am reluctant to reformat and remove windows because i have a lot of settings (passwords and bookmarks) i would not want to lose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 You will need a partitioning tool, like partition magic, to create some blank space at the end of your drive. You can then use that space in the FAQ listed above to install Linux. I say, personally, stick with the newest version out there. Linux will use whatever space you give it, but if you want a fully functioning desktop, complete with KDE, you'll probably want at least 5 gigs of space. That's a minimum. I personally have 120gigs of space, all linux, on my desktop. I recommend you create at bare minimum 2 partitions. One for / and one for /home. Given the 5 gig example above, I would go 4 gigs for / and 1 gig for /home. You'll most likely want to have more space than that. If you decide to create a 3rd partition, make it /usr. Make this one the largest as this is where Mandrake (and most, if not all other distros) installs all of your programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoworks Posted July 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 my windows is formatted in NTFS, is that a problem ? do i need to create a common partition (were i will have all my data and files) aside from the windows partition and Linux partitions, ad in which format do i have to create it ? in fact i would like to have my files to be accessible from both windows and Mandrake 10.0. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 If you want to have files accessible from both Windows and Linux, you will need a separate Fat32 partition to share the data with. That is the easiest way to share data. Also, changing NTFS partitions with partition Magic isn't a problem. Just make sure you get version 7 or above (8 is the newest, afaik) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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