The aim of this manual is to help you to install Linux-Mandrake on your computer. The setup program used is the graphical setup program: DrakX. If, for one reason or another, you cannot or prefer not to use the graphical install, you will be able to use a text version; how to access it is explained at the beginning of the section "Installation with DrakX".
You will first be given instructions for steps to take before proceeding to the installation, such as: finding information about your hardware, configuring your BIOS, and, if needed, creating a bootdisk.
We will then give you details on Lnx4Win. Lnx4Win allows you to install Linux-Mandrake on your PC without re-partitioning your hard disk. Although this is the easiest setup method, it has several disadvantages which will be discussed.
For those of you who want a standard installation, you will find help with partitioning issues. A whole section will be devoted to the concepts behind partitioning a hard disk with details on how to partition your disk for special uses. This should help you when you have to partition your hard drive, although DrakX is designed to handle this automatically.
And finally we will look at the installation itself.