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shoerose
02-21-2004, 02:13 PM
I'm getting ready to take the plunge into Mandrake. I currently have Win XP. I would like to install Mandrake on my slave drive.
What steps are needed? I have no idea what I'm doing. Can I install Mandrake on my slave? If so, how do I setup boot options to choose which OS to boot to?
Am I asking the right questions?
anachr0n0x
02-21-2004, 02:33 PM
mandrake has a very user friendly interface so you should have no problems installing it. Yes you can install it on your second hard (mandrake will help you do this) it also sets up a boot loader (LILO) so you can boot windows xp or linux.
have fun
shoerose
02-21-2004, 02:58 PM
Thanks.
Like I said, I know nothing.
Do I start the installation from within Windows or do I boot from disk one to start the installation?
JayMan8081
02-21-2004, 03:34 PM
You boot from CD one to start the installation process. Mandrake has a nice graphical installer that will step through the entire process.
shoerose
02-21-2004, 03:39 PM
Another (probably stupid) question.
It is going to ask which drive to install to... Right?
Choozo
02-21-2004, 03:46 PM
Yes, as long as you go for the "Expert" mode you have full control over the disk partitioning.
Cheers :)
shoerose
02-21-2004, 05:17 PM
OK, I did it. I'm not sure if I did it right, but it's done.
I got alot of "you can't do that unless you do this first" type of messages. I just kept clicking things until it let me continue, I'm sure something isn't done right. Mandrake is booting and everything seems to work though.
Can I network it with my Windows drive and my other Windows system?
Whoever said that the Mandrake installation was easy doesn't remember the first time they ever saw the installation screen.
mdwatts
02-21-2004, 05:21 PM
Originally posted by shoerose
Can I network it with my Windows drive and my other Windows system?
Whoever said that the Mandrake installation was easy doesn't remember the first time they ever saw the installation screen.
With Samba you can. Lots of posts on Samba in the Networking forum and a few guides posted in 'How I did it'.
Does Mandrake have a online installation guide that you could have followed?
Hi shoerose,
Just to post a few links that you may find useful. This first one is a link to the Mandrake Linux newbie docs which will be very valuable to you in the next few days! Trust me I know from experience when I first started with Linux. ;)
http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/92/en/Starter.html/
This link is a Samba HOW-TO. As mdwatts said you'll need to use Samba to link your Windows and Linux PC's together so that they can share files and printers. I think that Mandrake 9.2 comes with Samba as a default install, ubt if not you can install it from the binaries on the Samba site or from the Mandrake installation CD's that you have.
http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/
All the best, and if you need anything else just post back to us.
BTW: welcome to JL! :)
Hope this helps,
Jme
shoerose
02-21-2004, 06:33 PM
I was lost as soon as someone said Samba. I haven't seen that anywhere.
shoerose
02-21-2004, 07:33 PM
I boot up to KDE 3.1, what is this?
soda_popstar
02-21-2004, 09:07 PM
It's your desktop.
owlish
02-21-2004, 10:11 PM
wow looks like you jumped in without _any_ reading.. well even a userfriendly distro requires some reading around and terminology.
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html
Thats the Mandrake docs section... Go ahead and read it up it will introduce you to things around linux.