sigh, Just when I think I have a reasonable mind and the door to the hard ware, I have to start all over again. I thought there was a discussion once about the need for a duo boot system, but I cannot find this. pros cons, really needful? My goal remains for a number of reasons, a system with two separate drives, I know I need not do this, but just call me paranoid grin. for the foreseeable future, dos will remain my primary os, with the Linux distro I use on the second drive. I am building a different machine that will be a stand alone Linux server box, with some extras given the results of additional research. Sorry is this is a newbie question, but after reading that the *official* stock of Debian does not support speakup,...I am behind on reading the rest of that thread, I am being more careful than ever. Thanks, Karen
