Re: Ready to join the club..

[Thomas Jollans <tjollans@jollybox.de>]

Greg wrote:

> I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current
> machine.  (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary).
> The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain
> Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other.
> I've already partitioned the second HD and burned the installation
> image files onto CDs.  My question is this, I want to use a boot loader
> that will load either WinME or Debian.  Grub seems like the default
> boot loader per the installation docs I've read.  During installation,
> will Grub be smart enough to see WinMe on the other drive and will
> itput the boot loader file on the main drive, the one that holds WinME?
>
> I've sorted for this topic what wasn't able to find information on my
> setup.
>  
It should work fine. every time i installed debian it found my winodws 
(xp) install and at least some of the other linux installations without 
problems. I have never expierienced data loss when installing debian. my 
windoze uses fat32, as WinMe does.
in case it doesn't auto-detect, you can always add winme to grub. or you 
can use the windows boot loader to boot debian (at least with win2000 
and winXP ) ( tricky )