a hopefully simple question

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:05, robert jorgenson wrote:
> Okay i have a windows box with an 18GB hard drive, it has a 5gb windows 
> partition and i wanted to install debian on the rest. Ive never installed 
> linux on a box that had windows on it, or any other operating system for 
> that matter. Is there anything i should know before doing this besides 
> backup? Like a special lilo configuration(or whatever debian uses) or 
> anythign like that? I have wanted to install debian for a long time but 
> havent had the chance, now i got the space and the cd's and just need some 
> advice :)
> 
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My experience is with redhat / little mandrake & suse

install away - leave the winders partition alone - as long as this 18G
hd is master device on primary controller, debian shouldn't bother it (I
believe that is would use grub in favor of lilo and it should offer dual
boot.

Craig