differences Debian and Corel?

[Herman Christiani]

Hi All,
This is my first posting in this group,
I'm using at the moment a dualboot machine, NT4 and Corel Linux 1.2
since there is no further development regarding Corel Linux I'm
contemplating to change to Debian (potato).
Corel did not need anything to install NT in the boatloader (LILO?)
and I can without any problem access the NTFS filesystem with the Corel
File Manager, can Debian do the same?
Thanks,
Herman