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What about using one of the free virtual machine emulators and installing a test distro on that, at least then you can use it in a virtual machine and use e-mail / irc on your working distro and get help with the distro on the vm emulator. just an idea. I guess you may need a good deal of ram for that. Paul Robin Cornelius wrote: >On 10/19/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>I have 134 Gb free on my hard disk at the moment. Would it be >>possible/sensible to install a second distro for a trial run? I have >>heard about dual booting but usually with Windows and Linux. So is my >>idea feasible? And if so would it be terribly complicated/geeky? >> >> > >Yes this is fairly easy, I think the debian installer will detect >windows and other linux partitions and set up the grub boot loader as >required. > >The only problem is that it could do with its own partition and that >will mean a bit of messing around. I think you can re size ext2/ext3 >partitions without to much trouble (i could be very wrong) but all >partition fidling always carries some risk. > >Once you have a spare partition, just get a debian netinstall image >and run from there. > > > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html