pvdvyve
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Joined: Mar. 2004 |
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Posted: Dec. 24 2005,20:45 |
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Hi, I'm Flemish or Belgian too. Waasland, Belgium must be familiar to you. I use dsl since a while. I once made a setup next to mswin95, it still runs smoothly.
Now about your questions, I don't know the boot loader you use. I used lilo a lot, grub and simetimes xosl.
The best thing to do is installing dsl wih the dsl-installer and run lilo on the partition you installed dsl in. once you managed to do so, you have to tell your boot manager to boot from the bootloader in your partition where you installed lilo (dsl).
Another possibility is to put lilo from within the install of dsl to the MBR from your first HD.
If you ruin your setup, take a look at the fora of KNOPPIX, you still will be able to reset your MBR from mswinxp.
If you have an old computer take a look at it, it may be very usefull to learn a lot about GNU/Linux. Remember what I said in the beginning of my answer, the computer used for dsl next to mswin95, is a Pentium 75Mhz, with 48 Mb RAM, I bought a 5 EUR ethernetcard and had a lot of fun on the internet with it.
By the way I'am doing this using DSL 0.6 on an "old" computer too (Pentium3, 450Mhz, with 160Mb RAM(in fact 64, but I put temporarily 96Mb extra in it), it's not mine, just making win98 to run again, cleaning viruses, spyware and sh*t like that) .
By the way: Why is your wife still using MS, I use GNU/Linux, my wife does, and my three kids do. We don't need MS anymore. And my wife and me do use it for a lot, to make courses for school, to do banking, games etc.
Suck6 with your experiment.
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Greetings from pvdvyve "Belgium-Europe"
... just another Linux user ...
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