How do you install Mandriva?

You can by installing Windows in the normal fashion, but if you do, Mandriva Linux may be erased.

If you wish to keep Mandriva, and you do not have an empty space available on the hard drive, you will need to shrink Mandriva's partition, using a partition editor like GParted. Windows will only...

So that you may uninstall. As gravity may only bring down what first goes up, so also can you only uninstall once you have installed.

You should compare checksums of your files against the MD5sums for each. If they compare then it is safe to burn the CD's in ISO9660 format. You then install from the bootable CD-1. There is also a...

what do u mean custom install? Give more details.. You want to upgrade to win 7 or just format the pc and then put them on.