"der.hans" wrote: >
> > Will people understand that they have to give up some
> > or all of their Windows space, that Linux can't just
> > be installed "under" Windows?
Just a quick point. Technically, you can install Linux in the Windows
partition with what Redhat calls a "partitionless installation". You
dedicate a chunk of disk space to a container file that becomes your
Linux filesystem. The performance _really_ bites, and you tend to need
a boot floppy. It's possible tho'.
-- one more
For dual-booters, it'd be Handy if they prepared ahead of time by
cleaning up disk space and running defrag under Windows. Since users
tend to never ever do disk maintenance this can take a substantial chunk
of time to complete. Windows scatters and fragments files all over its
partition space when allowed to. It'd also be handy to have a supply of
floppys on hand for a pre-install partition table backup - in case
things don't go well (the whole "bootable floppy with the partition
table file and RESTORRB.EXE" or whatever).
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