First I would like to say Hello to everyone, I am pretty new to Linux and I
am planning to install a few different Distro's of Linux on a AMD Athalon
700 Mzh system with a 20 Gig HD with 128 Meg of Ram.

I have copies of several Distros that I would like to install, Mandrake 9.2
, Debian 30r2 are the two that I would like to install First.

My concern is I do not have the Hard Drive Partitioned yet. If I use the
Mandrake Distribution first I know for sure I can set up partitions for the
OS during the install. By doing this though am I going to cause myself
problems with the second Install of Debian ? Would it be better for me to
FDISK the Drive using Dos version of fdisk prior to installing any of the
Linux OS's ? If I do Fdisk the drive using Dos Fdisk I would need to
create a Primary and then a Extended partition, by doing this I cannot
remove or repartition that extended partition again without having to remove
the primary partition or am I wrong. I do not have 3rd part software such as
Partition Magic available to me at this time, so any advice would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks again for your help and I look forward to joining the
Linux Groups / Society.
Rmul1966

rmul1966 wrote:
> Would it be better for me to FDISK the Drive using Dos version of
> fdisk prior to installing any of the
> Linux OS's ?

No, you can't create Linux partitions with DOS FDISK.EXE.
Use the partitioning tools in Linux installers.

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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi