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by bobf 4600 days ago
I had a similar experience around the same age and year, except it was with FreeBSD. I got it to boot once, then tried to change the bootloader setup to allow dual booting with the existing MS-DOS 5.x installation. You can imagine how well that went, as a 10 or 11 year old with no previous FreeBSD/Linux experience. My parents were not quite so understanding about why I had broken their $3000+ computer and lost all their files. It took a few days, but I eventually managed to fix the MBR by reinstalling MS-DOS. Imagine my surprise when I booted into MS-DOS and found out that the files were still there!
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LOL I did the exact same thing with my parents' computers back then >:D