[NCLUG] Hello all!

[Mica Fine]

Thank you for the idea!

On 3/3/07, Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:
>
> Warren Turkal wrote:
> > Mica Fine wrote:
> > > I am going to be venturing into a dual boot with vista and Fedora Core
> 6.
> > > If any one has any pointers I would be grateful. I would like to pull
> out
> > > as little hair as possible.
> >
> > If it's like prior Windows versions, try to install Windows first. It
> makes
> > the process easier.
>
> Disk drives are inexpensive enough that when I need to do this I
> usually dedicate an entire drive to each.  Then when installing
> windows it never knows that it is not the only system on the machine.
> And I know that when I have physically unplugged the other drive that
> windows can't mess with it, having had a bad experience years ago I am
> now once burned and twice shy.  After installing windows then I attach
> the additional drive for the real operating system.
>
> Newer distros usually automatically detect the MS partitions and do
> the right thing with them so you might want to install the dumb os
> first and the smart os second.
>
> I would be curious if anyone had played with ReactOS.
>
>   http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
>
> It is MS-like, not Unix-like, and so not something that I personally
> am interested in.  But it is a free alternative to ms and so I might
> eventually give it a try.
>
> Bob
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Thank You,
Mica
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