> 
> I know that some people do have multiple distros set up on their machines, 
> and it's probably pretty easy to do. But like I said, I'm a real moron at 
> this point with linux

GOOD :D morons rule! perfect base for linux.

 - it's just one step at a time. It takes me about 6- 8 
> hours to reconfigure everything when I crash everything, which happens pretty 
> regularly when there is a block of 48 or 72 hours with which to try something 
> new.
> 
> So exactly how do you set up a second distro? I do use lilo, not GRUB, and 
> lilo is one of the few things I never have a problem fooling around with. 
> Unlike compiling - I've tried many dozens of times to compile a linux kernel, 
> with no success. There must be some one small thing I'm doing incorrectly, 
> but I don't know what it is. For example - and this is just one of the things 
> about compiling that eludes me - if I want to change just one thing, like 
> turning on scsi emulation when using Red Hat x.x so one can use an ATAPI cd 
> burner, when I go into xconfigure nothing seems to be set up the way my 
> machine is set up - in other words, it doesn't seem like you can ever just 
> change one thing because the way the machine configures itself seems to 
> follow a different configuration then the way xconfiugre is set up when you 
> go into it. It says I have a pentium when I actually have and AMD AThlon and 
> so forth. And I do not have anywhere near the knowledge to set up everything 
> - I've tried just for the hell of it, many times but like I said, with no 
> success.

Hmmm. mail to my adress, I'll give u some advice - but not right now, I'm drunk :)
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