Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 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. ;-)

Me too.

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

Just curious,  what do you call heavy duty?



 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?

Sure is,  I think it installs by default here.



 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> ;-)

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 .

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



 CA> I also noted this comment: "Please also know that, even though
 CA> Knoppix is based on the Debian distribution, your enquiries in
 CA> #debian may not be welcomed." after recommending using IRC to
 CA> get help. Based on my experiences in IRC you get bashed,
 CA> insulted, and they love to play mind games there. Usenet is
 CA> only slightly better than that. Had the same experiences trying
 CA> to get help with a Slackware mini-install being told it wasn't
 CA> Slackwarish enough or was too old a distribution for anyone to
 CA> 'remember'. Truth is they are kids and never saw an older
 CA> distribution. The one they use now is probably the _only_
 CA> distribution they've ever seen. LOL

 WC> Yeah there's a lot of arrogant attitude out there in Linux land.

Why should debian folks be expected to support knoppix?  I can understand
why they'd have a problem with that,  and don't see anything particularly
arrogant about this...



 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.

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

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