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Anyway, before i start installing it i have a few questions that are not described in the help files on the site to clearly.
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You may also want to check the newsgroups and linux questions, the answers are out there, its just that no-one wants to compile them :-)
Theres also your local linux user group which will be happy to help out and the Mandrake club, but that one, I belive, costs.
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Windows is on C I have some extra program files on D so i would like to install linux on a spare partition E. Is this quite simple to do??
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Wont be a problem, the installer should pick them up and ask you where to install, however it will use *NIX naming conventions based off the position of the drive and the bus its on - HDA0, HDB1 and so on, this is all well documented however.
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Also, I remember someone saying that a boot loader would be installed, Is there a way so that there is just a brief pause to choose booting into linux before it boots into xp so that there is not a greater amount of time added on to my reboot time?
Thanks! [/B]
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As I recall, Drake uses GRUB, this will pick up your windows install without difficulty, and as long as you install it to the right location (which should be the default, I use SuSE, Debian and NetBSD) you will just need to open the /boot/grub file and edit the delay.
Welcome to (as one of my lecturers put it) a MAN'S operating system :-)
Regards,
Ben