Re: Clueless users are bad for debian (was Let's CENSOR it!)

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> > I have just read an article in PC Week (online) by Neil Plotnick how the
> > necessity to partition your disk when you install Linux hinders the
> > acceptance 
> > of Linux. He gives an example of a computer instructor whose
> 
> If I'm not very much mistaken, it's possible to install Linux on a DOS
> partition (the UMDOS method, or something like that?).
> 
> I just used FIPS myself, about a year ago, so I can't remember the
> exact details.

     Check out `Drop In Linux' by Dale Scheetz' <dwarf@polaris.net>.
I don't know the current status, but it uses a umdos file system,
doesn't require repartitioning the disk.

Bob
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