My brother Mel already has a triple boot into mandrake, debian and windows, so I feel confident that he will be able to coach me through the installation steps. My brother will coach me through the installation of the latest stable version of debian. He is exploring the latest Beta version of debian, but I am not that adventurous.
I will let you know how that goes. Regards, Michael Walters ===================================================================================== On Saturday 15 March 2003 09:26 am, you wrote: > While debian is a great distro I shudder at the idea of using its > installer. It was the most convoluted install I have ever had to perform > (this was over a year ago). I would be interested in hearing what/how it > does with a triple boot system when your done. > > Good luck! > > Quoting Michael John Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello all, > > > > My brother Mel pointed out that I have lots of disk space, and that I > > could install debian linux in a triple boot with mandrake linux and > > windows 95. > > > > So I did a df command and got the following results: > > > > File System Size Used Available Used% Mounted on > > /dev/hda1 981M124M808M 19% / > > /dev/hdb2 23M 3.8M 18M 18% /boot > > /dev/hdb1 3.9G 1.4G 2.5G 39% /mnt/windows > > /dev/hda6 3.8G 1.4G 2.3G 39% /usr > > > > So it looks like my brother Mel is right, and I may soon get debian linux > > installed in a triple boot with Mandrake 9.0 linux and windows 95. Mel > > will have no trouble burning the debian disks for me. I do not know what > > version of debian Mel has in mind, but it will be the same version he has > > installed on his computer. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael Walters
