newbie curious
I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to
come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive
that already has win98 on it. The same machine has
linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the
master drive on this computer), and it works super
with linux mandrake.
I have some questions:
1. If the computer works with linux mandrake, then am
I safe to assume that everything will be compatible
with Debian Gnu-linux?
2. Win98 occupies 5gb of a 10gb hard drive. The rest
of the drive is not partitioned. I will stick the
debian distribution there. Will the Debian lilo let me
boot into Win98? Right now, linux mandrake recognizes
the win98 partition on the slave drive, but when I try
to boot into windows with lilo, win98 insists it sees
a nonsystem disk in the a drive and refuses to boot
up.
So, I am using the BIOS to switch between the two hard
drives.
3. Is there anything special I should know THAT ISN'T
COVERED IN THE DOCUMENTATION before I start? Any
advice some of you have to offer?
adios, Steve W.
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