Re: CHAT: Debian
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 27, 2002, 13:43 |
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En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
> Most certainly...
>
> Lilo is installed into the MBR, so it doesn't need a partition. So
> long
> as you don't run Windows XP or install Windows *after* Linux, your
> computer won't care.
>
I run Windows ME (which is set for multi-user use, although in the case of
Millenium it's little more than a little box at the beginning with a list of
users asking to enter a password. There are no rights and securities at all...).
I've seen by looking on the web that lilo could be installing on other
partitions than the MBR and still work correctly (for instance on a /boot
partition). I wonder if it can be installed on the primary slave and still
work... (what I had seen was for a single drive installation using Mandrake)
> Or, my computer is set up to boot off the secondary master for
> complicated reasons... depending on your system, you might do that and
> have Lilo pass control to the primary master to install Windows.
>
Well, it depends whether Windows ME, this strange patchwork of an operational
system, is more like Windows 98 or Windows XP on that respect...
> (When I tried Debian, I found the installation pointlessly hard (I'm
> used to Slackware, FreeBSD and Gentoo) once I'd managed to get it
> installed, I found apt wouldn't work... I can't recommend it based on
> my
> experience. (I think I was using 2.2.))
>
Strange... My former boyfriend was (and still is, he may not be my boyfriend
anymore but he is still alive AFAIK ;)) ) a fervent advocater of Debian (he
installed it on a zillion computers without ever having problems, but that was
at the times when a 1Gb hard drive were luxury ;))) . I saw him once installing
Debian on dual boot on a computer with Windows 98 and it went very smoothly and
was finished in less than half an hour), and I've got many people on the list
advocating it too. And now this completely opposite experience... Maybe you
didn't get a stable version...
Christophe.
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