-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> I've come around to your way of thinking as regards to
 WC> keeping Windows and Linux separate.

 CA> I like them on separate machines. ;-)

 RJT> Me too.

 WC> Don't have two heavy duty machines at the moment.

 RJT> Just curious,  what do you call heavy duty?

Well 400 MHz on up with 256 Meg minimum memory.

Reviewing my finances I may well be able to go
straight to DSL in near future :-)

 CA> You need the OLR, InfoZip, and a telnet with zmodem
 CA> up/downloading. I use ztelnet with my mini-installs.

 WC> Knoppix has telnet and I can already write online.
 WC> There's a Linux InfoZip?

 RJT> Sure is,  I think it installs by default here.

Thanks.

 CA> OK, the MP3 and HTML are there. Briefly reading the HTML "How-To"
 CA> I noticed the caveat about multi-booting and the possibility that
 CA> you won't be able to boot to Windows if you're not careful then
 CA> the mention that it's too complicated to 'discuss' with each user.
 CA> ;-)

 RJT> Heh.

 WC> I didn't see LinLoader in there but something about GRUB, something
 WC> I'll have to look into. If Windows get clobbered... oh well .

 RJT> GRUB is "GRand Universal Bootloader" or somesuch,  it
replaces LILO.
 RJT> With a typical windoze installation it likes to act like it
"owns" the
 RJT> machine,  and puts its own code into the MBR,  which LILO or GRUB
 RJT> replaces.  Not normally a problem unless you re-install windoze,  at
 RJT> which point it gets overwritten...

Not  a problem. I'll use fips -t to make a copy of the existing MBR
for each and every modification and include a text file revealing which
rootboot.00? file describes what partition arrangement :-)

I may Fdisk/mbr the drive  right off the bat before I resize it
then reinstall  using restorrb to restore that MBR to Windows
configuration.
This should allow me to play with safety within reason. 

I'm finding my Knoppix experience is going far more smoothly
than expected.

I need to do some drive housekeeping in preparation
to installing GRUB but after that it's dual boot all the way
with three Gig for Linux and three Gig for Windows.

Whatever GRUB does to the MBR I'll snag a copy of that as well.

 WC> I'm into dark humor.
 WC> One of my all time favorite movies is "Dr. Strangelove."
 WC> Another favorite is "Catch 22", the book not the movie.

 RJT> I've got a little graphic I'm gonna send your way...  :-)

 RJT> (done!)

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