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Okay I just successfully installed Madriva 2010 on my laptop using VirtualBox. Now that I have installed it and used it. I want to make it the ONLY operating system on my computer. How do I make it so that Windows Vista is no longer on my computer and Mandriva is my only operating system. I dont want to use virtualbox, I just want mandriva as my OS. Any help would be great thanks

I decided to try out fdc6 last night but in the instalation process I formated my entire hard drive (removed windows xp completely).

Now that I have decided that fdc6 is definetely not for me I dont know how to reformat the hard drive again and get my windows xp back…

when I try and boot from the windows xp cd it does not work, the disc spins and the screen goes black…

pleeease can someone help me, I will never complain about microsoft ever again

just a note to all the linux fans…the biggest problem I had with fc6 was that the mouse cursor would go to the left every time I opened up any application and it would stay there, this seems to be a common problem as I have found it reported on red hat bugzila

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/sho…

seems to me if an operating system had this kind of bug and the community is not able to fix it then this operating system is worthless…how are you supposed to do anything without a mouse.

Okay so I want to try at least 6 Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Mint, Debian and SUSE) and get used to all of them. Is it wise to make six separate partitions (apart from my Windows partition) and have a total of 7 operating systems at once? I’m doing this here on my laptop. What I’m worried about is that whether it’ll screw my hard drive or not. Is this bad?
I’m allocating 3-4 gigs for each distro. I got 56 gigs for my OS’s (32 gigs for Windows alone and 24 for the Linux distros). I have a total of 298 gigs of disk capacity and the rest of the space (242 gigs) are for my personal files. Should be enough, eh?
@hawklord yes, I know the fixmbr. I’ve used Linux before, Ubuntu in particular; but that was ages ago. I just really like to try out other distros and do a study about the pros and cons of Linux (school org thing) and, consequently, get used to the environment. I must admit I’m a Linux noob so I have to have a hands-on experience as I will have more in the technical field, which I am in now.
Thank you, guys. Your answers are really helpful. I never knew you can only have 4 logical partitions in a disk. How could I be so stupid?

I’m a relatively new Linux user. I like both OpenSUSE and Ubuntu but haven’t used either for more than a week. I can do some decent stuff with bash. I need something to completely over rite Windows from my harddrive, and I don’t want anyting that runs IN Windows. I’m currently leaning towards Ubuntu because of its .deb files and extraordinary package management (ex. Synaptic)– I don’t really like YaST. Also, Ubuntu has a much larger community and following. However, SUSE is well-polished. My questions are the usual ones, and I’d like to hear info/input on everybody’s part. Also, does Ubuntu come default with the option of starting with GNOME or KDE and can Compiz work with both of these? How easy is the first installation? I’ve heard of a few bugs with Ubuntu, but I really think the package management (especially for me) is a leaning point towards Ubuntu. Thanks for the help.

I have them all, and I was wondering which one is the best?