dual booting. And what distro should I get?

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

Ok I am going to dual boot windows and linux. Once I know how to use 
linux properly I will remove windows.

Anyway what do I need to do to partition a hard disk for linux?
I want to dual boot windows vista and linux.
What is required to setup a dual booting system? Is there any chance of 
breaking something? Will my system always be bootable?
And how hard is it to get it working.
I have some guys that are happy to help me on irc but just trying to get 
as much info as I can.

What distro should I use?
I was thinking debian or fedora. I tried the ubuntu livecd but don't 
think I need a gui.
Like for example most programs I would use would probably be command 
line ones.
So is debian a good choice?
How hard is it to patch speakup in to the debian kernal? And how hard is 
it to dual boot debian with windows?
And what would I need to do to get brltty working with debian?

BTW Does debian use apt-get install?
And can I just choose to install the debian console? (No gui?)
Thanks for any help.

-- Daniel Dalton

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
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