On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP > preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have a backup CD. > If the current WinXP gets trashed, I'm hosed. If this is the case, I wouldn't go forward. I'd pull your current hard drive, put in a new one and install to the clean drive. That way you can experiment and get a feel for the installation procedure. That said, I've done many installs of Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux and BSD systems on hard drives with existing Windows installations (and I never use a "maintenance partition" for Windows), and it always works out fine. But don't commit to an installation of any kind without a full backup of your data. Clonezilla is your friend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALDrw3OV2O=3r1nedjh4qxqp6bcf0ecxthpo439ojuswgv5...@mail.gmail.com
