brady.k — Mon, 05 May 2003 00:09:36 +0000

lol i'll keep that in mind

Busy — Sun, 04 May 2003 23:00:16 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Hensler
Feel free to mail me any spare drives you've got.

or me

Mark Hensler — Sun, 04 May 2003 20:24:08 +0000

I can't imagine filling a 80GB drive with linux stuff. Though, I do quite well filling drives with Windows stuff.

Feel free to mail me any spare drives you've got.

brady.k — Sun, 04 May 2003 16:39:07 +0000

ok thanks!

mairving — Sun, 04 May 2003 11:19:41 +0000

Partitioning is different in Linux. It depends on which flavor of Linux that you are using. Mandrake, Redhat and others have an option to auto-partition it for you. Basically you would have a root, swap, usr and home partition. I use fdisk for Linux to set my own partitions.

You probably won't need a 80Gb for both OS's. If you installed both disks of Mandrake, you would only have about 2Gb used. XP may be a little more once you get your programs installed.

As Mark said, lilo will give you dual booting capability if you install Linux after XP. Make sure that you make a boot disk with your Linux setup.

Mark Hensler — Sun, 04 May 2003 03:55:59 +0000

1 - up to you
2 - yes
3 - eh.. yes
4 - no, but linux can read NTFS
5 - lilo will prompt