>>Hilmar;
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>>One suggestion. Purchase a hard disk removable tray and a hard disk for your Linux system. That way you can use your present computer for more than one operating system, etc.
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>Thanks. I have a removable hard disk tray already, but for the secondary HD. I would put Linux either on that one (can I define it to be the main hard disk temporarily?), or just open my computer up and change the main hard disk.
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>Hilmar.

Here at work I installed a third HD (4.3GB Fireball) and told W2K to ignore it. Then I used it to put Mandrake on, and used the floppy boot disk technique to avoid putting LILO or GRUB (to Linux boot apps) on the MBR. This way I don't touch my W2K or the MBR at all.
JLK