Pretty much a Debian newbie
Hello Debian gurus!
Well, I'm new here and
I must apologize
in advance for my
naivity in the world of
Linux. Please forgive
any questions that
may seem a bit gullible.
So far, I've learned
to install Debian 3.0,
mount floppies, and cds,
and I get around the
programs ok.
Finally figured out the
permissions for kppp
and now I'm
on line and very willing to learn.
I worked a little bit with
Mandrake-Linux 8.2,
but the apt-get system of
getting programs seems
to be easier to work with
and less headache with
those darn dependencies.
I am a 67 year old man,
retired from the service
and living in Mexico City.
My wife died of cancer
a few years back, so I t
ry to keep my mind occupied
with adding to
skills with Linux.
What better way to
stay active than to tackle
a project such as this.
Well, that's for my
introduction. I am reading
all these letters with
intense, eager interest.
This week I'd like to put
in some hard drives &
configure them with grub (
or is it lilo?)
Is it possible to have
Debian 3.0 on the primary
hard drive, windows98
on the second and Mandrake
on the third? I do have
three hard drives that are
7.8 so they are too small
to partition each.
The only thing I can
think of is to have Debian's
bootloader taking care
of all three. Well, I can
do this with three
windows98 harddrives but I'm
going to need some assistance with this
project.
By the way, I was
told by someone on the
Mandrake mailing list that windows can't
go on the second hard drive.
I'm reading some manuals now.
TIA,
Harry Henderson
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