Okay I have the Mandrake 8.1 isos copied to disk

[EG]

how do I make a dual boot system with mandrake 8.1 and WinMe?

[Anthaus]

Mandrake will take care of it. The real question here is if you have some 5 GBs of hard disk space available.

If you don't want to tamper with your windows installation get another hard disk and install linux there.

Linux uses the MBR (Master Boot Record) to install their launching programs (LILO or GRUB). Come to think of it... I don't remember if Mandrake has that GRUB option.

I don't like LILO, anyway. It's too much of a hassle if you want to upgrade your kernel afterwards.

[EG]

Woot posting from mandrake 8.1

[PaleDuke]

Originally posted by EGhadsGhost
Woot posting from mandrake 8.1

Pretty cool eh ?!

Long learning curve but I think linux is real close to primetime now.

[EG]

still cant get it to dual boot dammit....

I loaded windows again......

put in the install disk and booted from the CD......

but no dual boat... I get to the screen hit windows and I get invalid system disk :)

no dual boot..aieeeeeeeeeee

The mandrake works fine tho....
was easy to set up

[Anthaus]

Which windows version are you trying to use? NTFS partitions require certain tweaks in your kernel to be properly recognized.

Unfortunately, I don't use NTFS. So I can't help you any further.

[TOXCaturi]

I have been booting ,Mandrake,Caldera and win 98,for about 6 months now,everything went very smooth for me . I think I am gonna go for Slackware soon tho ,it will force me to learn more about Linux than some distros,also have old sko unix 3.1 but no drivers for my current hardware,,,,,:)