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Fifteen-year-old me bought this circa 2001! There was a boxed product called "Linux for Windows" or something like that. It simply resized the Windows partition
by colindean 11y ago
Fifteen-year-old me bought this circa 2001! There was a boxed product called "Linux for Windows" or something like that. It simply resized the Windows partition, installed Mandrake, and installed Grub or LILO (can't remember). I installed it on an old Dell Pentium 2 machine I had because I was scared that it would mess up the Windows ME partition on my Compaq P3 800.
It wasn't the first time I'd used Linux -- that was Trustix over ssh -- but it was the first graphical distribution I'd tried. Earlier that summer, I'd (painstakingly over a 33 kbps connnection) downloaded Phatlinux, an early live CD distro. I couldn't run it on my Compaq for some reason, but I did get it to work on my aunt's computer. Phatlinux gave me a reason to investigate more and Mandrake let me do it. I think I used Mandrake on that machine until I discovered Red Hat in college (ca. 2003) and I switched to Ubuntu shortly after its first release in 2004.