I'm very much a devotee of Linux, particularly so since Andrew installed
Debian on my computer at the Aylsham meet. My trouble is that I still
don't really understand partitioning and lilo, so my attempts to install
Linux myself have been doomed to failure.
Until, that is, I got Mandrake 7.0 De Luxe, which must be the easiest
distro now available. I started to try to install it in the usual way
with the program automatically doing the partitioning - all went well,
until, like all the other distro's I've tried before, it didn't boot,
but, on looking more closely, I saw that the partion that it was on,
originally 2063Mb was now 2071Mb! How did that happen! So I tried the
easy way, installing it on the same drive as my Windows 98SE, in dos.
And it works! Of course, it's much slower than a 'proper' Linux
installation, but at least I now have KDE et al in a form I'm much more
sure about!
Terry