Re: Upgrading from XP to Linux
Al Getz wrote:
>5. Very important, does it work with FAT32 hard disk or is there
> a different file system in use?
Get SlackWare's ZipSlack, SlackWares mini-distribution, that runs
on top of FAT32 without reformatting.
As long as you have FAT32, and can reboot into real-DOS (you can
even do this with XP, as long as you use FAT32 and create a DOS
boot-disk from Win95/98) you just install it in a root directory
(for instance, d:\linux), reboot into real DOS, cd to d:\linux,
and run a batch file which loads Linux, and away you go.
ZipSlack only takes about 50 megs of disk space, but it is a
minimal distribution. But, you can easily add other packages,
such as the development system (e.g., gcc and friends),
x-windows, and so on.
It works for me.
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