[Tale of W9x virus rubbing out both W95 and Debian by trashing boot sector snipped]
Yike. That is a nasty thought. I have Debian and W98 on separate physical discs at home and W98 refuses to acknowledge the existence of the Debian disc. Hopefully a W98 virus would trash W98 on hda and leave my Debian setup on hdb alone, except that I would need a boot floppy to get going. Does this sound plausible? I think I might just go home and make a boot floppy or two..... Hugh ========================================================================== Hugh C. Pumphrey, Dept. of - | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Meteorology, Univ. of Edinburgh | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside U.K EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======P=l=e=a=s=e==N=o=t=e==t=h=e==N=e=w==F=A=X==N=u=m=b=e=r==============