Hi everybody...I am new to the mailing list and debian, so please excuse
my ignorance. I am currently running a dell inspiron 4000 with windows me
and red hat 7.1, but I would love to add debian! I was wondering if there
are any problems that I should expect or may encounter by trying to add
debian as a third option. I'm not asking from the hardware compatibility
side, but rather from the perspective of just having three operating
systems to the machine. Here is the partition table and what I plan to
do:
Name Flags Partition type FS Type [label] Size(MB)
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hda2 Primary linux ext2 [/boot] 24.68
Unusable 57.58
hda1 Boot Logical Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 3767.71
hda4 Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA [P^]c] 2097.45
hda5 Logical Linux ext2 [/usr ] 2097.45
hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [/ ] 1579.26
hda7 Logical Linux Swap 74.03
Logical Free Space 444.17
I plan on deleting hda4 and partitioning it into /usr, /home, and root for
Debian. By doing this, will I create problems by trying to boot the 3
operating systems? I am assuming that Debian will control the boot
process and allow me to enter red hat or windows...is this correct? Any
potential problems and/or suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks
in advance,
Ryan Elmore
Penn State - Dept of Statistics
