Linux Boot from Disk

[zed994]

Hey,

I am abotu to install mandrake as i said before, but i have read somewhere about the idea of putting Grub on a floppy and booting linux from there instead of ur comptuer, i have mandrake 9.2 and just a quick one coz i did the google and it gave me a whole bunch of crap, could someone also give me a quick guide to installing mandrake on my drive which is

18GB - Windows XP
12 - Unpartitioned space - help design linux on here for me!?!, thanks

Zed

 

[stefanwagner]

If you like to use linux more often, booting from floppy is of bad performance.
I have no experience with XP and linux booting from the same MBR, but I would suggest lilo from own experience as stable and easy to handle bootmanager, if you find advice, that it will cooperate with xp.

I heard well from Grub too, but since I didn't used myself, I don't suggest it.