Re: CHAT: Debian

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.

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.

(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.))

Tristan

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>En réponse à Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...>:
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>>Another option (in Redhat and Mandrake, at least
>>-- there ends my experience) is that the
>>installer lets you make a Bootable Floppy, with
>>LILO (I think) and some other stuff. This allows
>>you to keep your Primary Master drive completely
>>free of any Linux.
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>That's what I want (because I don't want to partition my Primary Master drive).
>Can you still have a dual boot system without any Linux on the master drive? I
>want each drive to be devoted to one operational system entirely and
>exclusively. Maybe I should put the second drive as secondary master... Well, I
>have largely enough time to think about it, it won't be done before next year
>at least :)) .
>
>Christophe.
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>http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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>Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.
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