You are shown a warning
to make sure you have backed up any information you depend on before performing the
partition resizing. If you??™re ready to commit, click OK.
It is foolish to tinker with partitions and volumes if you have important information on
them and no backup. Resizing is a pretty predictable process, but the process is not perfect,
and you can end up with a working Mandriva install and a sizeable, useless Windows
partition.
If all went well, you now have an unformatted partition available. Click the empty partition
and create the native Linux partitions you need or want. After you??™ve sorted all your
partitions in the manner you would like, click Done. A warning message asks if you??™re
sure you want to do this. Click Next and the deed is done.
13. In a normal Mandriva install, you would be given the opportunity to select packages to
install at this point. Because this procedure installs from the live CD, however, the operating
system on the live CD is simply copied to your hard drive. Once that's done, you are
asked to choose a boot loader.
14. Choose either the GRUB or LILO boot loader. Then choose the boot device (typically
the device representing the first hard disk that is booted on your computer, such as
/dev/hda). See Chapter 7 for descriptions of GRUB and LILO.
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