[Mageia-discuss] Dual-booting Mageia

[Anne Wilson]

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A young man who has steadfastly used Windows all his life is at last
beginning to wonder if he should try Linux.  I'm thinking that the
best thing for him would be to put Mageia onto a usb drive - I have a
spare cradle and a drive that I could wipe for him.  I've no qualms
about the actual install, until it comes to the bit where it asks
where to put the boot record.  Is drive A first sector the best place
in this setup?  What would happen if he tried to boot without the new
drive attached?

I've never done it quite like this before, but since he is a laptop
and tablet user, a second internal drive isn't an option, and he won't
want to split his drive, as he is an artist/photographer so stores
large files.

Anyone care to advise me?  I don't want to offer this until I'm sure I
can do it in a way that won't cause both of us hassle.

Thanks

Anne
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