[clue-talk] WinXP Dual Boot?

[Richard C. Savage]

I've previously installed various flavors of Linux (Fedora 2, RH 8, 9, 
6) on older machines that had VFAT hard drives.

However,  my newer machines came with WinXP installed, with an 80GB NTFS 
file system. The (old) fips utility I had for partitioning a hard drive 
doesn't work on NTFS. Descriptions on the web say Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 
later come with an included utility (called NTFS), as part of the 
installation routine, that allows non-destructive partitioning of a NTFS 
WinXP HDD.

Anbody out there had experience with using Mandrake (or anything else) 
to partition a WinXP NTFS drive?
Any experience with running Mandrake? If I use Mandrake to partition, it 
seems reasonable to install it - unless it's grossly inferior to, say, 
Fedora 2. I presume they offer a dual-boot configuration, with either 
LILO or GRUB - either is acceptable to me.

I'm just running desktop personal configurations, not an enterprise 
outfit, but I'm glad to learn new stuff. Your suggestions gratefully 
accepted. Thanx.

Dick Savage
Franktown, CO

_______________________________________________
CLUE-talk mailing list
CLUE-talk at cluedenver.org
http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-talk