Tried duel boot with mandrake a years or so ago.
Spent 6 months cleening up the mess afterwards. My bro is a network engineer and uses red hat a lot but even he was shocked at the mess it made.
I lost part of my hard drive (2.4megs) and to this day have been unable to recover it.
buy an old 486 and put it on their to save a lot of heart ache.