> 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'd look into one of the Knoppix distros, they have the Open Source equivalent of Partition Magic. Once you have that, I'd make a "data" partition, FAT32, a couple of GB. that you can mount from both Operating Systems. Then install your Debian on the rest of the free space that you left. Kevin -- 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
