--- David Nicholls <davidn(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:

hi everyone. i always understood that mandrake could be installed as an image within a windows partition (not that its the most ideal way but i have someone who needs this sort of thing for preference), and could be launched from win. does this still hold true?> [snip] any help appreciated.

You can mount a Linux filesystem from a file (image) (indeed, most boot floppies do so); and there's a program called loadlin.exe which can be started in DOS mode with some shortcut-fiddling. I'm not sure how to set this up in Mandrake though (or any installer for that matter:(). ===== -- JaredWigmore -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/S d? s+++:-- a? C++++ UL++ P--- L++ E>+++ W++ N>+ o? K- w--- O? M-- V-- PS-- Y-- PGP- t+++ 5? X R* tv b++ DI D G e- h! !r z- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.wlug.org.nz/JaredWigmore http://AnswersInGenisis.org/ http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search