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Dell Precision WorkStation 530 MT (Alpine)

Installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 from CD-ROM (15 December 2000). Upgraded to unstable and installed packages from unstable as required.

Velox is a dual boot machine with the first partition kept as NTFS (C: Drive). During the Debian install the second partition (originally the D: Drive) was deleted and partitioned as:

        Partition 8.2GB as linux ext2 /dev/sda2
        Partition 500MB as linux swap /dev/sda3
        Write partition table