Why not try a live CD distro like MEPIS or KNOPPIX so when you boot from CD your in Linux and when you boot from HDD your in whatever ----- Original Message ----- From: John Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:19 am Subject: Re: Fedora core 3 and oralux > At 10:15 AM 2/24/2005, Shaun Everiss wrote: > Is it therefore easier to have a seperate machine for dos or is > the > windows xp console suffishient, or > > > My opinion is that as a new user, it is best to have a seperate > machine for > linux. Something like fedora will install easily on a used > computer, you'll > be able to take all the defaults and have a working machine in > short order. > That will settle your boot loader question too because whatever > linux > distrabution you choose will have a default boot loader. > > Where I live, it is easy to acquire a computer to run linux > because linux > is far less demanding in it's hardware requirements than Windows. > I got my > linux machine for free from someone because they were going to > just throw > it out and they'd have had to pay the city $20 to dispose of it. I > don't > know what things are like where you are but my opinion is that you > should > try to find an inexpensive used machine on which to install linux. > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list