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Re: Is Debian Compatible?



On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 09:09:08PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Michael Manlief wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >     I'm for the most part a unix novice.  I would like to try the Debian
> > package, but still be able to to use win95 on my machine (not
> > simultaneously, of course).  I would like Win95 to be my main operating
> > system, and just use debian when i want to run unix based software.  Is
> > this possible?  
> Surely.  I do it (but I found eventually that I use Debian much more than
> Win95 :) ).  You'll need to repartition your hard disk to make space for
> linux;  this is possible with a few shareware utilities that are around.
> I've never had need for them,  but I'm sure someone here can point you in
> the right direction.

It is FIPS.EXE, available via ftp. (I can mail it, too).

Read the doc before starting.

Marcus

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Marcus Brinkmann
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