Linked by James Smyth on Tue 21st Oct 2003 17:51 UTC
MandrakeSoft has recently released the latest version of their desktop operating system. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition is available on their web site across three ISO files for the Club members. The first disk is about 650megs and the following two are ~700.
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I believe that the bootloader installation only re-writes the bootloader without asking if you have an insane bootloader installed, in other words the Windows bootloader. During the install on my box, it asked me where I wanted to install the bootloader or if I wanted to skip that step. This is because I already had Grub installed.
With respect to the re-installation of the windows bootloader after install, you can just boot from Mandrake CD1, hit F1 at the prompt, type rescue and then select restore windows Bootloader from the menu that will come up.
I don't really know why anybody that multi-boots windows and linux wouldn't want to use a bootloader to boot both. I mean, what's the point of multi-booting if you have to fiddle with floppies and stuff to get booted. And why do you need to spend $50 on a fancy proprietary gui bootloader that you see for all of two seconds anyway. I personally use Grub and have a list of three different Linux distros as well as 2 versions of windows that I can select from at boot. I wouldn't do it any other way.
/g