[mr_hank]

Hi, I dont know much about linux, but i would like to find out.
I am thinking of installing Mandrake over my WinXP pc.

I have two HD's (C: and F i was wondering if i wiped C: (it has windows installed) and installed mandrake would my second hard drive be affected?

also, I use ICS with winxp, (sharing my internet connection with another winxp pc in my network) would mandrake be able to do this?

I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum, I dont know anywhere else to go.

Thank you.

[saikee]

No need to wipe your C at all. The Linux brothers are not very ambitious and Mandrake is quite happy to live inside a 10Gb partition plus a swap partition (scractch area) about 2 to 3 times your physical memory. All you need is to squeeze the space out using something like Partition Magic.

Mandrake and all the Linux brothers are noble. They don't do any damage to any of your system, be it on another partition or a separate drive. In fact if you want to access information outside a Linux partition you have to "mount" it. Current Linux can read but not write NTFS files and it is pretty bomb proof.

Don't know how you get your internet but none of my 10 Linux systems fail to take up with the router and fire up the Internet without me doing anything.