[plug] Setting up Mandrake 8.1 on a PC

[Steege, Phil E]

The "safest way" is to buy an inexpensive second hard drive.  It doesn't
have to be huge.
Then you can ensure your windows disk data stays intact.
If you have allready set aside a partition for Linux, the Mandrake install
is very easy and when you get to the part about setting up your partitions,
you just select that partition and follow the prompts.  I have a Mandrake
8.1 system and have done both ways.  Mandrake was very easy to install.

Here is a link to a Mandrake 8.0 newbie install document.  It did not change
much in mdk8.1

http://www.littlewhitedog.com/download_file.asp?download_file=images/reviews
/other/00020/installingmandrake8.zip

Good luck
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Frayne [mailto:pfrayne at ecel.uwa.edu.au] 
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:29 AM
To: Perth Linux Users Group
Subject: [plug] Setting up Mandrake 8.1 on a PC


Hi everyone,

After years of using windows I have decided to get my hands dirty with
Linux. I am going to install Mandrake 8.1 onto my home computer into its own
partition and make the computer dual boot between Mandrake and Windows 98se.

I have looked on the net to find information on installing Mandrake and to
make sure that should I need to get my hands dirty at the command prompt I
would know something of what is going on.

As you can see, this is my first time (since TAFE in '96) that I have
installed linux and I want to make sure that I don't loose the data on my
home computer - and I will have the critical data backed up just in case!!

So I would appreciate any advice, URL's or information on installing Linux.

Cheers and TIA

Paul