Re: May I introduce myself to cobol?...

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:38:17 -0500

James J. Gavan wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>
>>
>> These days with most distros you just put the CD in and it installs.
>> When I put Mandrake on my laptop a month or two ago it correctly
>> resized the Windows XP partitions to give itself some disk space and
>> installed sucessfully finding and using all the hardware.
>
>
> Interesting - Mandrake does the disk partioning without removing any of
> the Windows stuff ? Or are there some BUTs....... ?
>
> Not quite clear - are you using any COBOL compiler with Linux ?
>
> Jimmy

The version I am using did it all, including the installation of a dual
boot so that I can boot either system. The Linux machine sees everything
... windows and linux drives, and can read both no problem. The windows
boot sees only the windows drive, and sees Linux as a foreign partition.

It did make the default boot (press reset and walk away) linux, but I
can change that using a fairly simple utility.

If you want to play with it, you can install it on any windows machine
with 7-8 gigs free (thats loaded, you could get by with 1/4 that) and
the only noticable difference on the windows machine is that some of
your disk gets used up.

Donald

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