Mandrake Linux

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, this is correct. Mandrake installs directly to your Windows drive
without having to repartition, and gives you a duel boot. How it works?
When doing the install at the boot splash screen you would press f1, type
win4lin, which puts Mandrake into the win4lin install mode. Mandrake creates
a encrypted swap on your Windows drive, formats a native Linux file system
inside the swap file, and then installs all Mandrake software inside that
swap. After it is done it installs and configures your boot load to boot
Mandrakw with XP, 2000, 98, etc...
Despite other postings Mandrake does have experimental drivers for NTFS 5
support compiled into there stock kernel wich allows you to access files on
your XP drive.

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store" <dabneyadfm at shaw.ca>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Mandrake Linux


> Am I reading this correctly. I can install Mandrake linux 9.2 on my
> Windows XP Home 80GB HD without repartitioning the HD or getting a
> second HD? If so, can I still have a dual boot system? All I see are
> RedHat rpms or Debian versions of software. How would I update or
> install software? Is Speakup and Emacs included with Mandrake? I would
> like to learn the basics of Speakup and Emacs while working with
> Gnopernicus.
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