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Originally posted by Jack Ruby
Alright, thanks for the help everyone. Everything was more or less as expected, except this :
Hadn't heard about this yet. Do I really need two or three partitions to use Mandrake 9.2 ? And what about this overwriting MBR jibba-jabba ?
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MBR: Master boot record.
Windows has a bad habit of controling everything. If you install it last it will write instructions to the MBR (which is the first sector of the harddrive) to look for windows. MS does not allow windows to acknowledge other operating systems if the last instructions written to the MBR where from a windows install.
Hence, you must install windows first, because when linux see's the MS instructions in the MBR, it will write a daul boot instruction to the MBR to offer you a choice of OS's.
As for partitions, check the distro you'll use site for size requirments. Linux will still take the same amount of space, that space will just be in three partitions. You have more than enough space budgeted for what your doing.