dual booting. And what distro should I get?

[Karen Lewellen]

out of curiosity,
How would this same question be answered if the goal is a Dos / Linux 
machine instead of a windows Linus one?  Including the most favorable 
debtors?  I too am likely to use a fat 32 partition, but wonder about the 
rest of the wisdom.
Karen

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, marbux wrote:

> A caution here. Always install Windows first. Windows has a very aggressive
> installer that will trash a previously installed Linux unless you really
> know what you're doing. I've even had it happen on a system where I had
> Linux and Windows on separate drives. Linux installers, on the other hand,
> do no violence to a previously installed Windows.
>
> It's also a very good thing to install Linux as soon as you have your base
> install of Windows in, before you begin creating other files. Windows
> partitions can become badly fragmented very quickly, and then you risk
> overwriting data on the Windows partition when you do your Linux install if
> you have to resize the Windows partition to get the job done.
>
> On your question about NTFS, there is FOSS software available now that makes
> Linux able to read and write to NTFS partitions and other that allows
> Windows to read and write to ext2 or ext3 Linux file systems. I haven't
> tried them. Instead I have a FAT32 partition that I use as the data
> partition for both operating systems.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marbux
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