[CLUE-Tech] Help Dual-Boot my Notebook?

[Warren]

mfporter at mindspring.com wrote:
 
 > ...with Windows ME, and I need to make it dual-boot with Debian.
 > Advice on partitioning the hard drive?  Is Partition Magic the way
 > to go, or are there other options I should look into?

Assuming an IDE drive, I typically make a 25MB /boot partition (active,
hda1), a Windoze partition (hda2), a Linux partition (hda3), and Linux
swap (hda4).

And then I conveniently forget where I need to install lilo and have to
look it up.

I've never used PM to do this, however.  I've always used Ranish
Partition Manager http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/


 > Any advice on obtaining a PCMCIA modem?  (Like all the notebooks I
 > looked at, this one has a Winmodem.

I've seen plenty of docs on how to get a winmodem working under linux,
but *I'd* rather take the path of least resistance and get one that says
"linux supported" right there on the box.  This usually means a 3com or
a Linksys.

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 </Warren W. Weiss>

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