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Re: [OFFTOPIC]

• Posted by euphoria_coder at HOTMAIL.COM Mar 05, 2001
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Travis Beaty wrote:

>So, I suppose this means a "dual partition."  That is something that I've 
>never done before, and it naturally makes me quite nervous.

I'm still running Win95, so I can't attest to how this would work with any 
later version, but I did just that a while back. I defragged the disk, 
moving everything down to the 'bottom' of the drive. I then changed the 
partition size, and made the 'upper' portion into a Linux partition. Held my 
breath; everything worked.

I would *not* recommend going that route. There's just too much risk of 
something going horribly wrong. A better idea would be to pick up another 
hard drive, and install Linux on that.

The Linux distributions have just gotten better and better - easier to 
install, more things preconfigured, more stable desktops, more hardware 
support, more useful applications... you name it. Linux-Mandrake is quite 
nice, but I've also installed SuSE and others with no problem.

Linux-Mandrake also has an option to install on Windows, by setting up a 
large DOS file to look like a Linux partition. I haven't tried that option 
myself.

As someone else mentioned, be sure that your modem is a hardware modem, not 
one of these cheap 'winmodems', which are basically glorified soundcards. 
You can always download from the Windows half of your machine - Linux can 
read Windows partitions, but not the other way around. But it's a bit klunky 
not to have a working modem.

You might want to play around with Wine as well. It's been a number of 
months since I've actually had Linux on my machine, but Win32Lib actually 
runs pretty well under it, and it's getting closer and closer to a 1.0 
release. Running Euphoria Windows programs under Linux is a real kick.

-- David Cuny