Newbie at Mandriva

[Idgeit]

Hey all, Im fairly new to linux, and ive just been going through an online manual to give me and overview on how its all installed, but i have one question,

http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandriv...tionDisks.html


I want to have a partion & dual boot, where i have windows XP on one side and Mandriva on the other, but once i get to the above menu, what option should i go for?

Thanks,

- Idgeit

[Vergil83]

It depends.

If you already have a free partition choose the first option.

If you have free space that is not part of any partition choose option 4.

If you only have a windows partition and are going to use the free space on that partition for Mandriva, choose option 3.

[Idgeit]

Ive just got windows on the hard disk, its not partioned or anything

[Vergil83]

Ive just got windows on the hard disk, its not partioned or anything

In that case it looks like option 3, "Use the free space on the windows partition"

[linuxuser40351]

I would recommend defragging because if your data is not physically moved to one end of the drive or the other when you partition it there is a chance of data loss. Just wanted to let you know.