Hi, Gregory. If you are truely interrested in having a multiple Operating System machine you may want to concidder something called the Trio drive selecter. I found it the best thing to use when programming under multiple Operating Systems. What this Trio does is hook up to your primary hard drive controler and you can install up to three hard drives to the Trio Selecter. I am a college student like you learning programming, and how my system is setup I can press a button on the Trio for Drive A, and my system will load drive A with Windows Millennium and I can do work with Visual C++ Visual Basic, and so on. When I push B on the Trio the selecter switches to the second drive in my computer, and boots directly into Red Hat 7.0. Then, you stillhave an option for a third drive which can be used as a beta drive to test applications you built, or have other distros of Linux, or so on. While lilo can manage multiple operating systems it has its draw backs. For example if you reinstall Windows it will over write the mbr, and having several operating systems eats away at drive space. Now hard drives are really cheap, and you can have 10 and 15 gig drives for less than $100.00 depending on where you look.
