On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bother you for a what may be a silly question?
There are no silly questions, there are however silly answers ;-) > Can it be installed onto a Windows 98 PC Yes. You need to install it on a separate partion however, if your win98 partition occupies whole disk space, you need to 'shrink' windows partition (use Partition Magic or freeware program fips - you can it find in debian/tools directory on your debian mirror). > how does Debian affect the > current O/S? I am a bit cautious to installing a new O/S (Debian) to find out > that I cannot use > Windows 98 anymore. Is it possible that I can run Windows 98 as normal, and > then start Debian once the initial O/S has loaded?? It's rather not possible to boot debian from windows session. But debian comes with a bootloader which will allow you to choose OS at boottime. > I am only using this for further UNIX development at home, rather at work, > but am > uneasy about installing it, if it means I lose my Windows O/S. You won't loose your windows if you are cautious enough: * prepare a windows bootdisk with fdisk on it, * prepare a linux bootdisk from debian installer, * read what installer says and DON'T REMOVE OR FORMAT YOUR WINDOWS PARTITION (you can't do that by accident, just be carefull), * if anything goes wrong and you can't boot windows, just restore MBR (boot from windows diskette and run 'fdisk /mbr'), that will make your windows bootable again, * if you need further help, write us. Regards, Adam PS.: When submitting to a list, always add a short description of your problem to the subject of your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
