Robert MacQuarrie asked: > Will it ask for which drive peramiters to install to.. (or does it > install directly to C drive)? It'll begin by asking you which partion you want to initialize (read "format"). Then it'll ask you which drive and which partition you wish to install to.
> Will MSBackup also backup the linux partitions? Very unlikely. AFAIK, Microsoft can't even recognize disk partitions that aren't their own. > I have heard that MSBackup is not a realiable backup source so > can anyone give me their opinion as to a realiable one? Well, there's good old 'dump', then there's 'taper' (much friendlier than 'dump', then there's 'tob' which is a new package preferred by several of the Debian developers. > The drive that i'll be installing to will be drive D. The > partitions on the 1.2 gig drive will be 500 msdos, 32 swap, 100 /(root), > (these will be hdb1-3). 190 for /usr, 95 /usr/local, 32 for /var, and 250 > /home, (these are hdb5-8). Do these look good for partitions? Well, my /usr partition (which includes /usr/local) now has about 450 MBytes in it. But I have installed many more packages than I use on a regular basis. On the other hand, my root partition (sans /usr) only holds about 30 MBytes currently. So you might want to increase /usr at the expense of /.
