Any feedback on my gameplan and questions below would be appreciated. TIA.
I have a new Toshiba notebook that is moderately useful even though it's only running XP. It would be better if it ran Linux with Wine. I'd like to maintain the notebook's XP functionality while I learn how to get Debian with Wine working. At first I'll setup dual booting. This way the XP partion keeps the notebook useful while I work through the issues related to getting Debian installed and working. Is Partion Magic the best tool for this? I'll get the Debian partion working for all the functions I want (internal display, external display, NIC, modem, sound, CD-RW, DVD, USB, digital camera, scanner, external mouse and keyboard). Then I can set up Wine in Linux partion. The XP version shipped with the notebook is unique to Toshiba. I don't know enough about the Wine program to understand how Wine accesses XP and if this Toshiba recovery CD containing XP will work with Wine. If the Toshiba distro of XP is incompatible with Wine then I'll stay with the dual boot configuration. I am not about to buy another version of XP so I can run Wine. Once everything works with the dual boot system and the Toshiba XP distro works with Wine, I'll wipe down the hard disk and install Debian only and use Wine for XP hosted programs. Is this a reasonable approach given my requirements? Again, TIA for any feedback. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
