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I'm currently downloading the new version of MDK. I have also been doing some checking on installation problems and I've noticed that I should not do the upgrade option. How do I remove my current version of MDK 9.0? also do I really need the third disc for a good installation. I'm dual booting with XP Home. Thanks Art

Thanks for the info do I really need the third CD?

I have tried everything under the sun trying to get mandrake installed as a dual boot with XP. I read that this is suppose to be easy to install but all I run into it seems is problems. I boot the computer with disk 1 and the disk restarts my puter. It then goes through some things and starts to do the installation all is fine till I get to the partition part. I pick used unused space and adjust my partition to the size I want (about 20g). I then select done from the menu and I get a message (I can not read ntsf please pick another option). Which leads me to shutting down from frustration. I am new at Linux distros. which could be my problem I am also a good novice at best with windows but I really want this Mandrake because it is suppose to be nice. Can anyone help me out I have tried other forums to no avail and this one seems to have people that respond to questions with some good advice. Any thoughts would be greatly apprecaited Art

Is there away to swap music files between XP and Mandrake 9 without saving them to a disc and doing a reboot. Also is there a video player available besides X-ine which I can't seem to get wmv type files to play.

The only readme file I could find had a warning stating that if this was installed major problems would occur with your video card. qoute you have been warned unqoute. sure wish this distro was as easy to use as people make it sound ;(

I downloaded the file but I can't seem to install it When I open it I picked extract all and all is i see is a bunch of folders What am I doing wrong :x

How do you put icons back on the desk top screen I deleted the cdrom icon by mistake now I can't even find it in the menu's anywhere. Does mandrake suck to set up or is just me :x

Sorry I have mandrake 9 ;(

Ok I finally got my mandrake 9 installed But i can't log on when i get to the part were it wants a login and password it won't go past that screen. I type in Root for a login and the my password but it says login incorrect any ideas. And also is there a way to go around all the dos type screens before the login and get right to the good stuff Thanks Art

Well I got it to boot automatically I had to reinstall the OS and made a boot disk this time :x now every time it boots and gets to the main screen it asks for the root password for the control center or what ever one is controlling the internet connection. how do you stop that or is it normal

ok how do you do that if you can't tell i'm really new to this linux :x

Dudes getting a CELL You must have missed my last post

Danleff if i formatt my drive to fat32 what will happen to the files that I listed are they needed or just some junk. When I get to the partition part I click on the 10gb partition then pick journalized files then auto allocate and then done to finish correct. The partition part is were I keep getting messed up thats why I'm sound so nervous :x I'm going to try once more tomorrow. ok maybe twice Thanks Art

I believe that my hard drive is partitioned now. I have a 10gb and a 65gb partition to make the 10gb one work with mandrake when i get to the partition set up I just click on journalized files correct? Then just click on done in the menu? Then proceed (hopefully)

Ok guys i tried again last night and BAM next thing I know Im reformatting XP 8) Not a problem because now I can set up a partition right. Well this is what happened. I went in and did a complete format and when prompted about partitions I checked out what I had. Well there were 5 different partitions and I know how they got there but let me finish on what I did with XP. I got it down to two partitons the C (10g) and D (65g). I wanted the c to be the bigger of the two but when I went to delete it a message popped up saying that there was troubleshooting and other system information on that drive and to be sure you want to delete because you might not be able to boot froma disk until a complete installion is complete. So now my XP is on D drive which I don't think makes a difference but correct me if I'm wrong. So know I have two partitons Heres what happened when I tried to install Mandrake 9 for the fifth time. I got to the partition area again made the size I wanted ;( and hit auto allocated. I now know were the 5 partions came from . So being that I read from the left to the right and thinking my XP should be on the partition to my left which for what every reason is know 10g. I tried to back out and resize the partitons again and I was sent to a screen telling me about not being able to read ntsf. Now before that my drive was set up like this 10g /nt: if memory is right 5g swap remember reading about it but not sure what it is 2 really small ones like 231kb and 8 kb 60g home this I thought was for XP. That all happened on auto allocate I'm sorry if this sounds like jibberish but I am a rookie at linux like one guy noted So now if I go to install mandrake how do I get it on the 10g area. Am I correct that in the setup I will chose hda1 because hda2 should be the 65g partition? I really apprecaite all of your help. Art One more thing there were some files put on the c drive when i was formatting there are as follows $WIN_NT$.~BT dell $LDR$ txtsetup.sif Can I just click and drag these to the D drive or do I start all over again

Wow you guys are are quick I did not do a partition before the install. I was under the impression that when installing Mandrake it would do this automatically. Hence my problem I am coming to realize. When I got to the partition part of the install I was clicking on the bars above the disk graph it listed stuff like swap,ext2,ext3 and a few others but I could not figure out how to apply them to the disk bar graph. I'm at a loss on why everyone that has tried and installed this have had no major problems. Ive tried the recommended install and get stuck at the same point. What specific info would you like me to supply for more help. I'm trying version 9 to answer one gentlemans question.

To be honest I have no idea what kind of partition I'm setting up I did a 20 g partition because I did not know how much linux needed. From the site you posted I now know that all I need is about 4-5g correct? When you are talking about journalized file systems you lost me big time. Is this something that I can possibly do without doing a reinstall of XP. I really don't want to do but if I have to I will. Doing all the windows updates is a pain. I quess what I'm asking can you talk me through this in Mandrake for dummies terms? I have a laptop that I can do a complete install of mandrake for practice if you think that will help me learn the way linux works. The lap top is a older compaq 4220t and I'm not sure if it has what mandrake needs to run. Thanks for your help Art