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Re: Newbie.. Help!



Koyote wrote:
> >Question 2:  Considering my above statement concerning my ignorance
> of OS's,
> >should I even be considering abandoning windows in favor of linux ?
> 
> Depends. Can you afford to buy a second computer- a used 486 for a
> couple hundred dollars? Then, yes. If ou only have one computer, and
> one hard drive- it's going to be a great deal harder to learn. I
> started by putting a second hard drive in my main machine- great for
> installing and learning the basics (though I'm beginning to get really
> pissed off about ppp.....) and I don't have to worry about file system
> integrity between the two systems.

Huuu?
I started one disk (now have one especially for Linux ;-) ), and the only
problem I had was w98 reinstall crunching lilo boot.
JY
-- 
Jean-Yves BARBIER <jybarbier@wanadoo.fr>
"Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles
fussent..." P. DAC
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