[Nottingham] Mandrake 10, xp dual boot, designing an installation....

[David Aldred]

In message <410045C4.9030705 at ml1.co.uk>, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> 
writes:
>David Aldred wrote:
>>   From what I can see, the likely way to avoid the issue is:
>>  - Partition under Windows using Partition Magic or similar (I 
>>haven't  checked yet - does this create all the partition types Linux 
>>needs?)
>>  - Check that the BIOS IDE access Mode is set to LBA
>>  - Install Mandrake 10, selecting LILO as the boot manager
>>  - Pray fervently.
>
>Good summary!

Just to save me all the hassle of getting it and trying it, anyone know 
if Partition Magic will shift data in a Windows partition out of its way 
in order to create a new partition?

XP Defrag and Diskeeper are both stubbornly leaving some unfragmented 
files at the end of the drive - I can't see any good reason why since 
they are not flagged on the analysis as unmovable, but unless you want 
to repartition it wouldn't be a problem, of course!  And of course I 
don't want to use a Linux partitioning tool at this stage since it may 
be an issue with the Linux tools I've got that I'm trying to avoid (um, 
that sentence could probably be rephrased, but you know what I mean).

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