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One idea you might think over is adding a seperate hard drive.
You still use lilo or some boot loader, just have it installed into
the boot sector of your primary hard drive.  A small 600 + meg drive
just for the Linux operating sys. I won't recomend using any form of
umsdos or any thing other than a unix type file system for your linux
as there are some inherited benifits.  i.e. being able to manualy set
inode size. Going further, with two drives if something on one system
or hd hacks a hair ball - you won't have to reinstall both OSes and
their various Software componets over again. You only deal with the
one that needs work. There can be problems associated with
partitioning schema that you wont have be worrie about.
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 01:20:48 GMT, Lo Wang <Laughing@you.com> wrote:

> There are two ways you can do it...either use fdisk and destry all
>data on your harddrive then partition it one for linux and one for
>windoze then do a full reinstall of your windoze and then install
>Linux.
>the second option is to get an "on the fly" partitioning tool such as
>Partition Magic. This is the one i recommend, I partitioned my hard
>drive in 3 minutes...and was on to installing linux...
>
>If i may ask, what release of linux are you using?
>Myself i am using the mandrake linux 6.5....sure it cost 29 bucks but
>i got all the tools that i needed to install linux and partition my
>hard drive for linux with out destrying data on the windoze partition.
>Plus i get free technical support if i ever have a problem. The only
>problem i had when installing linux was a hang when it probed the
>video adampter...i had to restart the installation again but it was so
>damn fast i did not care and i found a way around it. so maybe you
>should consider using a "paid for" version of linux...since it is
>still open source and comes with everything you really need including
>windows emulators, X windows etc
>
>As to your problem with @home...i too have the same problem. and get
>this i live in south carolina and my subdomain is located the same
>place yours is...talk about some crappy service....i send them an
>email asking them why it is that way...and all they do is send me an
>email back telling me that i should contact customer support with any
>problems i have...hello?? is that not what the email address
>is??/customer support??i say bah...going to DSL soon.