Re: help

["Matt Richards" <matt@mattstone.net>]

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:34 am, patrick bourne submitted, for all our
> perusal:
>>----> From: "Patrick Bourne" <bon2112@peoplepc.com>
>>----> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>>----> 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
>>---->                                          bon2112@peoplepc.com
>
> 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.
>
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