   | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate | |  What would be the best way to install DSL so I can still use WinXP? What would be the best way to install DSL so I can still use WinXP? |  | Moderator with 96,685 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | I guess that would be dependent on the network configuration you have in mind. I'm not sure what having DSL and installing Linux have to do with each other. Can you clarify what your concern is? | | | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate | | Sorry, I meant DSL (Damn small linux) not the internet connection  |  | Distinguished Member with 22,933 posts. | | | | I'm new to Linux but it would make sense to put the operating systems on seperate partitions---a duel boot set up. | | | Moderator with 96,685 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | Well, the query makes a lot more sense now! 
I agree, carve out a partition for the Linux distro and dual-boot to it. If you have enough RAM and processor speed, you could also do what I do, run virtual machines with various configurations installed. | | | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate | | I don't think I'll go the virtual machine way. So how do I create a partition? | | | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate | | I'm going to try Ubuntu instead since the CD came in the mail today |  | Distinguished Member with 15,988 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Experience: Advanced | | Any particular reason you want to install DSL? Its usually run from a CD or USB drive, etc. You can also run it from within Windows (its called DSL Embedded) | | | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate | | brendan: see post above yours |  | Junior Member with 3 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Experience: Intermediate |
23-Feb-2006, 07:08 AM
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23-Feb-2006, 12:11 PM
#11 | rove: Thanks, but no thanks.
I'd still like to know how to create a partition if anyone can help me? | | | Distinguished Member with 2,165 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Experience: Intermediate |
27-Feb-2006, 04:05 AM
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28-Feb-2006, 12:34 PM
#13 | Most distros will have some kind of partition manager in the installer, like fdisk, qtparted, gparted, etc. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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