[Sussex] Success!

[Tom Ellis]

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 10:44, Dominic Clay wrote:
> People,
> You should be very proud! :)
> 
> Thanks to the good communication last night, I have successfully dual booted
> this damn laptop all on my lonesome :D
> 
> I installed WinXP, booted to a rescue prompt with RH7 install CD.  Mounted
> the / partition, then did a chroot to this partition.  I then added a
> section to lilo.conf for hda1 called it winxp.  I added the menu thingy
> which was commented out at the top of lilo.conf (bit of a panic before I
> spotted this as it just rebooted into Linux without offering me a chance to
> choose :P) and Bob is your mother's brother!
> 
> Did I do the right things?
> 
> So, what do I do now to make it a pretty 'windowy', 'outlooky' type
> environment?
> 
> Dominic
Nice one!
by windowy i assume you mean gnome/kde... you can choose either :)
Not sure the correct debian equiv of 'emerge gnome' but i'm sure steve
will... (apt-get?)

by outlooky, i also assume you mean Evolution..
http://ximian.com/products/evolution/
should get you started

Tom