Partition magic + linux?

[VHockey86]

I had my friend on DSL download mandrake 9.1 for me and i was wondering if anyone could explain the installation process for dual booting XP Pro and mandrake 9.1

Will partition magic work with linux? It says it supports linux partitions but its not listed on under supported OS at the Proquest website

Right now ive got an 80 GB drive split into a 40GB c: and a 40GB d: for storage on xp pro...
The D: is NTFS so would i be correct to say that it wont be accessible from mandrake?

I figured i would delete the c: patition with the windows xp pro CD, then create a 30GB partition and install windows.

Then presuambly mandrake has a partition utility built into its installation?
I've never installed/used it before

If so I could simply have it install itself on the 10 gigs left over?

If anyone wants to correct/add/comment on anything it would be very helpful

thx,
andrew

[vass0922]

1. Install Windows first and setup your windows partitions as desired.
** If you want READ ONLY access from Linux then NTFS is fine, you can READ NTFS from Linux but NOT write!
2. Install Mandrake, it will setup either GRUB or LILO (your choice typically) both are bootloaders that will automatically detect Windows
** Mandrake does come with a partitioning utility, I believe it has an option to auto-allocate NON-partitioned space so just make sure to leave it some room

[Siliconjunkie]

Vass is right. No need for partition magic. IMO, it just causes more problems than its worth. Unless you need to resize a partition.

[[Neo770]]

Also maybe it's just me but Partition magic wouldn't do anything with my drive when I had ResierFS partitions.

[VHockey86]

This is prolly a really dumb question but it shows how ignorant I am about linux.

will it run any windows executable programs or does it use completely diff files?

Would I have to get different versions of things like photoshop and dreamweaver if i wanted them to run on linux?

[Siliconjunkie]

Completely different apps. Normally you use a Linux version of an app that does the same thing Photoshop=Gimp there are Linux apps out there to do almost anything. Look at www.freshmeat.net and www.sourceforge.net

[nishark]

there's a first time for everything VHockey

u would need to have separate programs for separate operating systems. u would have to get different versions of things like photoshop and dreamweaver. incidentally, diff versions of photoshop and dreamweaver dont exist. but there are a lot of alternative programs to be used in linux. there is a thread lying here somewhere regarding that...

partition magic doesnt work with linux, its a 'windows' program

in your situation, i'd use PM to setup an ext2 partition and then chuck in the linux install disk. but then i've heard mandrake9 is very userfriendly in its installation procedure. havent used it yet, so cant opine.

also, if u only require READ access to ur NTFS windows partition, u might have to recompile ur kernel(?). I had Redhat7.2 which didnt come with built-in NTFS support, and i was suggested to recompile. instead of going that way, i smoothly used PM to convert my NTFS partition to FAT32. so if u dont want dramas before accessing partitions from linux, make them FAT32...

[VHockey86]

Well I will mostly be using windows xp pro. Most of what I do on computer is surfing the web/instant messaging/basic photoediting/ a little webpage development and lots and lots of games.

I just though linux would be nice to play around with considering all the hype it seems to have surrounding it

[Siliconjunkie]

Newer distros come with NTFS read ready to go. No more recompiling for it.

Why use PM (which you said wouldnt work for linux) to setup one of the 3 partitions you will need for Linux, just let the installer do it. Both RH and Mandrake are pretty friendly about it.

[Xeroid]

One of the new features of Mandrake 9.1 is that it is now capable of resizing an NTFS partition (making room for your Linux install). 9.0 could only resize Fat32.

Mike

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