I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive that already has win98 on it. The same machine has linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the master drive on this computer), and it works super with linux mandrake. I have some questions: 1. If the computer works with linux mandrake, then am I safe to assume that everything will be compatible with Debian Gnu-linux? 2. Win98 occupies 5gb of a 10gb hard drive. The rest of the drive is not partitioned. I will stick the debian distribution there. Will the Debian lilo let me boot into Win98? Right now, linux mandrake recognizes the win98 partition on the slave drive, but when I try to boot into windows with lilo, win98 insists it sees a nonsystem disk in the a drive and refuses to boot up. So, I am using the BIOS to switch between the two hard drives. 3. Is there anything special I should know THAT ISN'T COVERED IN THE DOCUMENTATION before I start? Any advice some of you have to offer? adios, Steve W.
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