Virginia, windows98 must be on the primary drive (or the first/master drive) and you can format the drive as FAT32 to make the best use of space. Depending on your preference I would recommend either Mandrake http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/, or Suse http://www.suse.com/index_us.html Linux which can be installed on the second drive. It's best to install them on separate drives, and windows should be installed first then Linux. Linux has it's own boot loader which will allow you to boot into either windows or Linux when you are done. I heartily recommend that you purchase a retail box set of either one as they do provide a lot of useful information in both large manuals and assorted documentation, in Suse Pro you get 7 cd's, one DVD, and five manuals. With Mandrake you get nine cd's, 1 DVD and 2 manuals. Both offer excellent partitioning tools so that Linux can peacefully coexist with windows as well as providing numerous applications from word processing, graphics, complex games, to browsers and email and many servers. Happy computing. HTH
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 07:10 PM 2/5/2002 +0000, Virginia Da Costa spoke this: >Of course all this can be changed, as I have no idea how best to install the >OSs with a dual-boot system. I know Windows has to be installed on a primary >partition, but I know nothing about Linux so far. What is the best boot >manager to use, and how does one go about setting it all up? What would be >the best way to partition the disks? My own preference is always to have >several smaller partitions rather than large ones where things are inclined >to get lost. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
