Full replacement of MS

From: Gayle Lee Fairless (fairless_at_hiwaay.net)
Date: 11/29/04

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    ken keanon <kenkeanon@yahoo.com> wrote the folowing:

    Hi,

    I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian
    GNU/Linux.
    The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data
    that I
    had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and
    videos?
    Anyone has done a complete and successful conversion? Will I have to
    start-off
    with a dual-OS system and do the conversion via the HD? Or should I carry
    out
    a MS Backup of all these data to a CD-RW and use it for the conversion
    under
    LInux? Would like to hear from you.

    Cheers

    Ken

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    I have a dual OS system with Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux. I put
    woody on a second hard drive. Since woody can mount a FAT32 filesystem,
    getting to the Windows hard drive is convenient.

    Others on the list have Windows XP with the NTFS system. Since Linux does
    not yet appear to have reliable access to that system, a number of them
    appear to have created an FAT32 partition on their system that lets Linux
    and Windows have a common access area.

    I use LILO to give me a menu at boot to select either OS. For the
    convenience of my wife, it defaults to Windows at present. But that may
    change as she gets used to Linux! B-)

    HTH,
    (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless 

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