> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:34 am, patrick bourne submitted, for all our > perusal: >>----> From: "Patrick Bourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>----> To: <[email protected]> >>----> Subject: help with installation >>----> Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:23 AM >>----> >>----> Hello, I have recently downloaded the businesscard >>----> image for the stable release of the debian OS. Can I >>----> use this version along with Windows 98 or would you >>----> recommend installing debian by itself. I went to the >>----> command prompt and typed - cd D:\debian and it >>----> changed to the D drive which is my CD ROM drive. I >>----> had my installation cd in the drive but I cannot >>----> initiate the installation. The business card release >>----> has 30 MB of data and I put it on a CD. Will this make >>----> a difference. >>----> Patrick >>----> Bourne >>----> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It's not difficult to run win 98 and Debian on a dual boot system. I have > run > win 98 and XP plus three Linux distributions on a system in the past. > > There is a lot of documentation on the net about this. > > So win 98 and Debian is no problem, take time to read a bit, and if you > run > two Linux systems, you can use the same swap, but not the same /home. > Because > it creates conflicts.
should be ok if you make sure the same users have the same uid's and you dont have different user accounts with the same uid on both installs. :) >It's fun to do especially if you like to try a few > Linus distros before making up your mind about which you like best. > > I found lilo the easiest to use as the bootloader for multi boot systems, > but > remember that anything you change in lilo you must run lilo as root to > register the changes. This is not required with grub. > > > -- > Registered Linux User:- 329524 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality but > you > do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are > nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all. > --------------------------------------------KALU RINPOCHE > > *********************************************** > Brilliant Debian Sarge 3.1 > ___________________________________________________________ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
