-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For Debian, go get yourself some Progeny disks. Progeny's dist is discontinued, but their installer is better than Debian's (unless you have flaky hardware that the installer doesn't like....), Progeny is more current than Debian Stable (and it's stable to boot!), and you can upgrade Progeny to Woody (currently testing) or Sid (unstable, beware!) [there have been a few bumps along the way for some poeple, but it's nothing that the folks in #debian on openprojects.net can't help you with.) I really suggest you don't got to Windows 95. If you have 98SE around that would be the better choice. Really. Windows 95 really really sucks (I can't express how badly it sucks...) espically is you don't have the OSR2.5+ release (for stuff like IE4, Winsock2, FAT32, etc...) Even those releases weren't great. Go with Windows ME. :) As for your printer under Linux, what kind of printer? CUPS is really great IMHO! Easy to setup and configure, etc. I compiled up a newer version of CUPS from Debian Unstable for Progeny. Maybe I still have the packages around. If not, apt-get source is your friend. :) IIRC the newer CUPS worked a bit better for network printing than the version in Progeny, so if you're not network printing maybe the version in Progeny will work for ya. But we need to know what printer to help you. Lastly there's your camara. Again, what kind? What interface (USB, serial, printer, other)? What kind of media does it take (Memory Sticks, Compact Flash, Smart Media, other)? If the camara itself is not supported it's very likely that you can get an external USB reader for the media. I got my CF reader for under $30. USB works well under Linux. Don't know how well it would work under Debian Stable, I don't thing good USB support hit 2.2 until 2.2.18 and 2.2.19. Progeny gives you 2.2.18, maybe 2.2.19, and 2.4.2 to work with. All their packaged kernels have worked well. And there's nothing to stop you from building your own kernel. It doesn't matter what order you install your operating systems. Windows 9x (95-ME qualifies as 9x) will overwrite your MBR when you install Windows, but you can use a rescue disk to boot into linux and restore lilo/grub. - -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | Bender: You just think that robots are machines built by humans to make their life's easier. Fry: Well, aren't they? Bender: I've never made anyone's life easier and you know it! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvfE/EACgkQ/PFCAPL3hQMS6wCglfiBVhC2WCLocAQDqAXIp18R qvoAnj+LUWMrM1lRGl2mgS/hgVDJ1ARV =rzl3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----