Installation Questions - Report

[Charlie Bullen]

Hi I took a harddrive that had win2K installed, using Fat32 not NTFS and =
tried=20
to install Mandrake 9.0. Mandrak has a function that will resize a fat=20
partition, but in this case, it wouldn't work.

Before Igo to much further he is the equipment I'm using a via technologi=
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EPIA mini itx mother board with a C3 800mH processor. 20gig maxtor drive.

I took the drive, attached it to another box, as this one has no floppy d=
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and ran partition magic on it resizing the win2k partition to 10gig, leav=
ing=20
10 gig for mandrake.

The installation froze as it was installing the packages. Thinking that m=
y=20
Mandrake disks might be bad, I also tried installing RedHat 8.0, same res=
ult.=20
It froze as it was installing packages.

I removed the drive, reinstalled it into another box and the installation=
 went=20
fine.

Removed and reinstlled the drive in the Mini itx box and booted.THe first=
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screeen that came up was the bootloader with the various OS options,=20
basically mandrake and Windows.

I selected mandrak and the boot process froze.

Windows booted fine.

Deinstalled the disk, reinstalled it in the other box and both mandrake a=
nd=20
wndows booted fine.

Such are my results. I think it must be some conflict beteween the new=20
motherboard chip combo nd mandrake as I am currently writing this on my=20
normal desktop which can boot to Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 8.0, K12LTSP, a Red=
Hat=20
7.3 version and Windows2K

Charlie=20
>
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 07:55 pm, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I need to build a dual boot system - Linux and Win 2000. The machine
> > already has Win 2000 installed, and the original installation disks a=
re
> > MIA, so I cannot reinstall Win 2000 if I make a mistake. My questions=
:
> >
> > 1. Any suggestions on how to safeguard the Win2000 on this machine si=
nce
> > I cannot reinstall it if I break it?
> > 2. Which distro would you recommend - RedHat 8.0 or Mandrake 9.0? Any
> > views on stability since both are relatively new?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark Phillips
> > Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> > 480 945-0798
> > 480 945-9197 fax
> >
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ge,
> > however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienc=
ed.
> >
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