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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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