Guest Johnny Brazil Posted April 25, 2007 Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) Installed mandriva 64bit on my laptop. Decided to repartition the 2nd partition on the machine, that way windows is still working while i test this thing out and, therefore, am not stuck without being able to play my directx games. Here's the setupo. C: FAT32 - (60 gigs) has windows installed D: NTFS -D has my music on it and some other crazy files, this is the drive i repartitioned, i gave 40 gigs to windows, and the rest i installed linux on (total size of drive is 60 gigs) I tried looking up some resources online for dual booting but only found decent windows2k/mandrake guides on dual bootting, and they weren't helpful. I have a single dvd that i put the cd image on, instalation went smooth. If i set boot options to the hd linux is on, it loads up windows, if i set it to the cd drive it boots up linux installation. I tried playing with the cd installation menus but i only get to a black screen that says "boot:", and unlike dos, i can't find a list just anywhere with all possible commands. Ther is also the pushing of F3 on the installation screen that makes a "boot options:" command line show up I have no diskette drive. Edited April 26, 2007 by Johnny Brazil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 (edited) If I understood what you said properly, you actually haven't installed Mandriva at all... just burned it to CD. Edited April 26, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Johnny Brazil Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 (edited) it's installed on the second half of the repartition of the ntfs (d:) drive my cd drive is (E:) Edited April 26, 2007 by Johnny Brazil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 I'm sorry, but Linux can't be installed to an NTFS partition. There's also no C:, D;, E: etc. nomenclature in Linux. Mount points are totally different. I still insist you haven't installed Mandriva at all- just burned the ISO to CD, and somehow managed to boot from it (sort of). If you don't believe it, then it's fine for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Johnny Brazil Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 I'm sorry, but Linux can't be installed to an NTFS partition.There's also no C:, D;, E: etc. nomenclature in Linux. Mount points are totally different. I still insist you haven't installed Mandriva at all- just burned the ISO to CD, and somehow managed to boot from it (sort of). If you don't believe it, then it's fine for me... maybe it's not starting up because it's on ntfs partition. ill try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 (edited) maybe it's not starting up because it's on ntfs partition. It's not there at all, I can assure you. Try describing what you've done in a better way, and maybe we can find a workout. Edited April 26, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Johnny Brazil Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 i watched the install go for half hour, i know the difference between a windows cd burn and a reboot os installation it's not even letting me reformat the drive linux is on back to fat32, and it says the drive is 41.6gb, which is what i allowed windows to keep for itself when i went through the installation, so unless burning a cd hides 20gbs on my hardrive something was done by linux. Windows no longer sees the last 20gb on the second partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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