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Stremik

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That's it! I'm fed up with damn Windows!

I WANT LINUX!

Therefore, I need an advice. What to choose and how to install it?

I still want to keep Windows just for the sake of Photoshop so I guess

dual boot is the way to go.

How do I need to set the jumpers on harddrives for dual boot?

I have two 40GB harddisks and up until now I've had them set in stripe array(both disks were set as slaves)

If anyone has time, please explain evrything step by step.

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Yet another satisfied Micro$awft Windoze user :)

What to choose? Houdini-wise, especially when you're new to Linux, RedHat would be the best choice I think. I currently using RedHat 7.3 (with customized kernel, latest drivers etc.) and it works all fine.

Dual-boot is indeed recommended. And as far as I know, you don't need to change the jumpers on your drive. Unless you have problems booting up in either Linux/Windoze which can be caused by your harddrive's capacity and OS (NT4.0 tends to only with "LBA", and Linux with "normal"; by the way, these settings are done in the BIOS). Speaking of Photoshop, I find The GIMP a VERY nice piece of software! And I haven't missed Photoshop that much so far.

I used to have dual-boot Linux/Windoze (NT4.0) on two drives, but if you have problems. Just post them up and I might be able to help you.

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