extra assistance

extra assistance

[scott.shade]

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Hello folks, I don't know if I've just done a step wrong, butt, when I tried to pull up the installation manual for debian on their web site, it gives me a choice of different languages, and then what looks like different types of packages, like arm, ibmx86, power pc, and so on.  I've selected the united states server, and my languages are set to united states in my brouser.  I'm not sure which manual to start reading.  When I click the link that says it should bring up the right manual, it provides this language and then the packages page.  Also, I'm having trouble finding cips to run under ms dos, and looking at partition magics interface is making me nervice.  I don't want to make a mistake early on.  Can someone give me some pointers here, thanks, Scott


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Re: extra assistance

[Thomas D. Ward]

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Hi, Scott.
Arm, IBM86,  Power PC, etc are processor types not packages. You'll need to find the processor familly which your system belongs to. Usually your home pc should belong to something like I386, I586, (I686, etc...
What version of Partition Magic do you have? Resizing your drive with it really is not dificult.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: scott.shade@insightbb.com 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:09 AM
  Subject: extra assistance


  Hello folks, I don't know if I've just done a step wrong, butt, when I tried to pull up the installation manual for debian on their web site, it gives me a choice of different languages, and then what looks like different types of packages, like arm, ibmx86, power pc, and so on.  I've selected the united states server, and my languages are set to united states in my brouser.  I'm not sure which manual to start reading.  When I click the link that says it should bring up the right manual, it provides this language and then the packages page.  Also, I'm having trouble finding cips to run under ms dos, and looking at partition magics interface is making me nervice.  I don't want to make a mistake early on.  Can someone give me some pointers here, thanks, Scott



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Re: extra assistance

[scott.shade]

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I'm borrowing a copy of 8.0, butt, when it talks about installing an os, it talks about using its boot loader to boot the new operating system, and I'm not sure if that is what I really need to do.  

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Re: extra assistance

[Ryan Mann]

If you want to boot from the hard drive, you need a boot loader, but you
could probably just let the installation program make a system boot disk
and just boot from it if you wanted.


On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 scott.shade@insightbb.com wrote:

> I'm borrowing a copy of 8.0, butt, when it talks about installing an os, it talks about using its boot loader to boot the new operating system, and I'm not sure if that is what I really need to do.

Re: extra assistance

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  You eventually use a boot loader, but it will be lilo.  You will
install it when you install Linux.

          Kenny

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:39:51AM -0500, scott.shade@insightbb.com wrote:
> I'm borrowing a copy of 8.0, butt, when it talks about installing an os, it talks about using its boot loader to boot the new operating system, and I'm not sure if that is what I really need to do.