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Title: Windows and SME dual-boot?
Post by: Clint on May 10, 2003, 09:22:47 PM

I was linked to this software by a friend, and it looks excilent, everything I was looking for in a Linux distro.

Now, my server is already running Windows 2000, quite happily I might add, and I don't want to erase it quite yet (until I am sure that SME is for me). Will installing SME server wipe off all my partitions/format my data, or does it live happily with other Operating Systems?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Windows and SME dual-boot?
Post by: Terry on May 10, 2003, 11:21:11 PM

It will wipe ALL hard drives clean on install.  Get yourself a nice, small, cheap 2 Gig drive and start playing from there.

Title: Re: Windows and SME dual-boot?
Post by: Clint on May 11, 2003, 12:20:03 AM

Ok, thanks. I just didn't want to lose all my data ;)

Title: Re: Windows and SME dual-boot?
Post by: Ray Mitchell on May 11, 2003, 08:02:10 AM

You might want to use VMWare under Windows to test run sme.
see
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7436.msg27303#msg27303

and also search these forums for VMWare (all dates) for various threads

Ray