On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:30AM -0400, Jonathan Freiermuth wrote: :Short answer - yes. :Real answer - yes, if you are willing to learn. : :I've never personally used Corel, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess :that Corel did its best to hide the complexities of Linux from the user. : :Debian is a powerful system, and as such requires more knowledge :about how and why things work. In other words, you can probably install :debian off of an official CD, no problem, but you may have to recompile :your kernel to enable reading the NTFS volume.
I've never used Corel either so caveat lector, but if it's Debian derived, can't he just edit /etc/apt/sources and do a dist-upgrade? This would leave the kernel in tact and let him keep all his data and whatever frobs he likes from Corel. -Jon