You lost my point, which was that waiting for a boot means you have to make a special effort to go use that system. That's not the way to learn. The way to learn is to always have it at hand ready to use, not ready to boot. asavage1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list