friend who successfully dual booted Win''98 and Mandrake 7.0 on his laptop
with no problems reported. Another friend - a 100% Linux novice - got
Mandrake 7 dual booting on his new system in under an hour. You are the
first person I know who''s had a problem with Mandrake 7 (or 6 for that
matter).
The <1024 boot partition error that occurred is because due to the way x86
hardware works, the Linux kernel must be in the first 1024 cylinders
(2GB) of the hard disk. There are two ways to avoid this: use a boot disk
only, or make sure that there is a 12MB /boot partition somewhere within
the first 2GB of your drive. Since you were installing to a second hard
disk, I wouldn''t have thought that you would need to do either of these
things - the install program would create the /boot partition
automatically before the first 2GB of your second drive.
As for the lack of KDE, it seems like you accidentally deleted part of the
package. Mandrake should have an option to let it decide what partitions
and packages you need. Perhaps this would have been the best option to
choose?
Another point: you have to remember that almost every Linux distribution,
including Mandrake, is a commercial product. The retail box would contain
a very thick manual containing a detailed step-by-step guide on the Linux
installation process. That''s one of the things you pay money for. The
manuals are usually included on the distribution website or on the disk.
If you want an easy install program that I can guarantee works, download
SuSE. Ask your friend with the CD burner to download SuSE the 6.3 or 6.4
eval from the SuSE ftp site (ftp.suse.com). The setup program - YaST -
is very easy to use, and it shows you how big the packages you are
installing are.
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