I did almost the same thing, dual boot on a home made PC, NT server, Linux,
and Win98 on 3GB and use an additional disk for applications. Worked
just fine.
Jacques Chansavang
IBM Global Services
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Phone: (219)455-6234
>>> Christopher Hinds 12/10 9:58 AM >>>
If you really want safety try using a Boot manager like System Commander 6.0.
I corrently have NT Workstation , Win95 and Red Hat Linux 5.1 running on
a 200MHZ CTX notebook with a 3GB harddrive.
System Commander by V Communications.
www.v-com.com
Java Development Account wrote:
> > ........
> > Anybody got any impressions on this Linux On A Disk deal? I'm not sure
> > whether my system will handle three drives, but if not maybe I could
> > replace the 1.0Gb with the 6.4Gb. I guess I'm still a little gun shy
> > at installing Linux alongside NT, because I had some real headaches
> > last year when I tried to intall the two os's together. It seemed that
> > NT did not like Linux being on the same machine, so because I "needed"
> > the NT app's, I gave up on Linux. Now I'm ready to try it again. And
> > OK, I admit it, I'm not ready to be completely weaned from NT until
> > I'm comfortable with Linux.
>
> You can install both OS's, but you must be careful about which to
> install fisrt... (NT, of course, linux is a little more friendly with
> other OSs:)
>
> >
> > Also is there a xemacs for Linux? I always like to duplicate somehow
> > the development environment I use at work.
> >
>
> The question should be : Is there a xemacs for Windows? (There's
> a xemacs for linux, try http://www.xemacs.org/ftp-sites.html)
>
> BTW, I almost prefer for linux emacs to xemacs, (emacs gets XXX
> Terabytes of your HD and xemacs about XXX0 (well, actually 18M vs. 40M))
>
> > TIA for any suggestions.
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
> Javier.
>
