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Re: newbie questions



I am sure this is dead simple and explained in several places but I'm
getting nowhere fast.

I am using a Micron pentium 100 and have Win95 operating on a partitioned 2
gig  HD.  I choose win95 or debian through OS2 boot manager and debian
boots from its partition with LILO.  I also have a debian swap file
partition.

I have downloaded and (apparently) successfully installed 1.2.1(actually
1.2 first and then 1.2.1) and thrashed around in the Infomagic December
cd-rom set with dselect.  I understand the commands OK but the sheer volume
of packages is overwhelming.  Anyhow, I can't get the directory to display
at the / level other than 3 bash files (or subdirectories).  I have logged
in as root and su.  I can cd to subdirectories and ls -a or ls -f and see
the trees from there but not at root.  

Also, following Zenon Fortuna's detailed posting regarding the Info Magic
LDR (thank you Zenon!!) I can get to the point of trying to create a new
kernel but the "make config" says command not found.  I suspect this has to
do with run levels or permisions but I am quite lost.

And finally, every once in a while I hit an attempted command
experimentally and the root prompt changes from # to > and I can't use any
commands.  When I try to go back to the rot directory I get a "not
connected" message.  My only way out has been to shutdown.  Any
suggestions. 




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