[sionnsar]

And finally, I'm looking at three CD's I just burned of MandrakeLinux that I am seriously going to put on both home machines- dual boot, either Win2K or Linux. I hate to make this old brain learn another OS, but it can't be any worse than the hours I have wasted cleaning up messes left by Microsoft's carelessness.

Suggestion -- install Windows first. I recall reading several years ago, that during installation Windows would wipe out any other system it found on the drive. Caveat: I have no personal knowledge whether this is true or not. (The last time I set up a dual-boot system was in '98.)

I've used Mandrake and RedHat for years and generally liked them, but I recently dumped RH9.0 for Knoppix after I saw a big increase in performance in the latter using their LiveCD (which I subsequently installed). Thinking now of moving over to straight Debian.

[backhoe]

Appreciate the info- that's what I vaguely recall too, but since Win2K is already resident, it shouldn't be a problem. MandrakeLinux claims it will dynamically repartition the drive and install a dual boot loader. I cloned both drives, just in case... better safe than sorry.